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Page ii
... speak in half sentences , while he censured the vices of a cruel and luxuri- ous despot ; but there could be no occasion for en- veloping himself in obscurity , while he expounded the doctrines of the Stoics to his friend Cornutus , or ...
... speak in half sentences , while he censured the vices of a cruel and luxuri- ous despot ; but there could be no occasion for en- veloping himself in obscurity , while he expounded the doctrines of the Stoics to his friend Cornutus , or ...
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... speak plain ? I dare , I must , -to check my rage were vain . My spleen o'erflows , I sicken to behold A guilty world , in error growing old ; Each stage of life mark'd by its empty joys , The infant and the man exchanging toys ; Cum ...
... speak plain ? I dare , I must , -to check my rage were vain . My spleen o'erflows , I sicken to behold A guilty world , in error growing old ; Each stage of life mark'd by its empty joys , The infant and the man exchanging toys ; Cum ...
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... speak ; But when the guilty soul throws off disguise , Then whisper'd prayers , and mutter'd vows arise . " O in his grave were my old uncle laid , " And at his tomb funereal honours paid ! Sub rastro crepet argenti mihi seria dextro ...
... speak ; But when the guilty soul throws off disguise , Then whisper'd prayers , and mutter'd vows arise . " O in his grave were my old uncle laid , " And at his tomb funereal honours paid ! Sub rastro crepet argenti mihi seria dextro ...
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... speak ? Canst thou the tumult's mingled roar restrain , Silence command , nor wave the hand in vain ; On public good the public mind enlight , And lift the torch of truth where all is night ? No doubt , thou canst in thy experience ...
... speak ? Canst thou the tumult's mingled roar restrain , Silence command , nor wave the hand in vain ; On public good the public mind enlight , And lift the torch of truth where all is night ? No doubt , thou canst in thy experience ...
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... speak ; Who all his sense in lofty language shrouds , And gropes in Helicon amidst the clouds . If such there be , who loving things obscure , Horrors delight , and Progne's feasts allure ; Who sit well pleased where Glyco is the guest ...
... speak ; Who all his sense in lofty language shrouds , And gropes in Helicon amidst the clouds . If such there be , who loving things obscure , Horrors delight , and Progne's feasts allure ; Who sit well pleased where Glyco is the guest ...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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