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Page xxv
... o'er and o'er again , Not to indulge your rhiming scribbling vein ? Besides , your age : consider , sir , your age , And learn to temper your poetic rage . P. As time speeds on , and years revolve , my friend , I grow too idle , or too ...
... o'er and o'er again , Not to indulge your rhiming scribbling vein ? Besides , your age : consider , sir , your age , And learn to temper your poetic rage . P. As time speeds on , and years revolve , my friend , I grow too idle , or too ...
Page xxvi
... o'er my head , Health lost her bloom , and faithless Pleasure fled ; Friendship retired , and left me to decay , And Love desponding threw his torch away . ' Twas then , when sickness and when sorrow drew Their sable curtain on my ...
... o'er my head , Health lost her bloom , and faithless Pleasure fled ; Friendship retired , and left me to decay , And Love desponding threw his torch away . ' Twas then , when sickness and when sorrow drew Their sable curtain on my ...
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... o'er the shepherd's tomb , Bade the sweet flower of Hyacinthus bloom ; Where with young Zephyr Flora loved to play , And hid her blushes in the lap of May ; Where Dian nightly woo'd a blooming boy , And , veil'd by darkness , was no ...
... o'er the shepherd's tomb , Bade the sweet flower of Hyacinthus bloom ; Where with young Zephyr Flora loved to play , And hid her blushes in the lap of May ; Where Dian nightly woo'd a blooming boy , And , veil'd by darkness , was no ...
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... o'er , And mortals know those happy times no more , When Pan with Phoebus piped upon the plains , When kings were shepherds , and when gods were swains . Plain common sense , thank Heaven , has banish'd long The age of fable , and the ...
... o'er , And mortals know those happy times no more , When Pan with Phoebus piped upon the plains , When kings were shepherds , and when gods were swains . Plain common sense , thank Heaven , has banish'd long The age of fable , and the ...
Page xxx
... o'er Liguria's land ; Beheld its forests spread before my eyes , Its fanes , its palaces , its temples rise : When lo , the sun - burnt Genius of the soil , Ruddy his cheek , his arm inured to toil , Before me walk'd , and to a gloomy ...
... o'er Liguria's land ; Beheld its forests spread before my eyes , Its fanes , its palaces , its temples rise : When lo , the sun - burnt Genius of the soil , Ruddy his cheek , his arm inured to toil , Before me walk'd , and to a gloomy ...
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admired aliquid atque censure centum Chrysippus Cleanthes Cornutus dare delight Dicere dost thou Dryden Egyptians feasts Fescennine verses fidelia fools glow gods hæc hath Haud Heic Hinc honours Horace Horus hour hunc illi Inque ipse Jews Jove joys Juvenal laurel lictor lyre mane mihi mind Muse nempe nihilum nisi nunc o'er obscure observations oculos pale palles passions Pingue pleasure poet poetry populi prætor's praise pueris purple Quæ quam quantum quibus quicquid quid Quintilian quis quò quod rage reader rerum Roman Rome Sæpe sage SATIRE III SATIRE IV SATIRE VI SATIRES OF PERSIUS satirist shame sibi sistrum soul Stoics strigiles sung tacitus tamen taste thee thine thought tibi tion toil tongue Tunc umbo unity of subject Unmark'd venit verba verses vice virtue vivere water-clock wealth words wretch youth
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Page 46 - Summosque pedes attinge, manusque : " Non frigent." Visa est si forte pecunia; sive Candida vicini subrisit molle puella ; 110 Cor tibi rite salit ? positum est algente catino Durum olus; et populi cribro decussa farina : Tentemus fauces.
Page 14 - et qui caeruleum dirimebat Nerea delphin; ,,sic costam longo subduximus Apennino. 95 ,,Arma virum, nonne hoc spumosum et cortice pingui, „ut ramale vetus, praegrandi subere coctum?" Quidnam igitur tenerum , et laxa cervice legendum? Torva Mimalloneis implerunt cornua bombis, et raptum vitulo caput ablatura superbo Bassaris, et lyncem Maenas flexura corymbis 100 Euion ingeminat: reparabilis assonat Echo.
Page 70 - Vertigo facit! Hic Dama est non tressis agaso, Vappa et lippus, et in tenui farragine mendax: Verterit hunc dominus, momento turbinis exit Marcus Dama. Papae! Marco spondente, recusas Credere tu nummos? Marco sub judice palles? 80 Marcus dixit: ita est. Assigna, Marce, tabellas.
Page 28 - Ecce avia, aut metuens divum matertera, cunis Exemit puerum, frontemque atque uda labella Infami digito et lustralibus ante salivis Expiat, urentes oculos inhibere perita.
Page 14 - ... ait Pedio. Pedius quid? crimina rasis 85 librat in antithetis, doctas posuisse figuras laudatur: 'bellum hoc.' hoc bellum? an, Romule, ceves? men moveat?
Page xi - Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe iocoso, Defendente vicem modo rhetoris atque poetae, Interdum urbani parcentis viribus atque Extenuantis eas consulto. Ridiculum acri Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.
Page 72 - Sambucam citius caloni aptaveris alto. Stat contra ratio et secretam gannit in aurem, Ne liceat facere id, quod quis vitiabit agendo.
Page 48 - Cor tibi rite salit? Positum est algente catino Durum olus, et populi cribro decussa farina : Tentemus fauces ; tenero latet ulcus in ore Putre, quod haud deceat plebeia radere beta.
Page 10 - Quisquis es, O, modo quem ex adverso dicere feci, Non ego cum scribo, si forte quid aptius exit, 45 Quando haec rara avis est, si quid tamen aptius exit, Laudari metuam, neque enim mihi cornea fibra est ; Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso EUGE tuum et BELLE.
Page 78 - Indulge Genio, carpamus dulcia, nostrum est Quod vivis : cinis et Manes et fabula fies ; [Vive memor leti, fugit hora, hoc quod loquor inde est.] " En quid agis ? duplici in diversum scinderis hamo, Hunccine an hunc sequeris.