A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader |
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... fortune by turning informer . The emperor Domitian gave fo much encouragement to fuch people , that many made their fortunes by fecret informations ; infomuch that nobody was fafe , however innocent ; even one informer was afraid of ...
... fortune by turning informer . The emperor Domitian gave fo much encouragement to fuch people , that many made their fortunes by fecret informations ; infomuch that nobody was fafe , however innocent ; even one informer was afraid of ...
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... fortune on the flews , in lewdness and debauchery . 59-60 . Lacks all the income , & c . ] Has fpent the family estate . 60. While he flies , & c . ] The perfon , here meant , is far from certain . Commentators differ much in their ...
... fortune on the flews , in lewdness and debauchery . 59-60 . Lacks all the income , & c . ] Has fpent the family estate . 60. While he flies , & c . ] The perfon , here meant , is far from certain . Commentators differ much in their ...
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... fortune than the Prætor or the Tribune . - What can even a patrician with for more ? Indeed , " when I fee a nobleman reduced to keep fheep for his liveli- " hood , I can't perceive any great advantage he derives from his nobility ...
... fortune than the Prætor or the Tribune . - What can even a patrician with for more ? Indeed , " when I fee a nobleman reduced to keep fheep for his liveli- " hood , I can't perceive any great advantage he derives from his nobility ...
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... fortune again . 108. The quivered Semiramis . ] The famous warlike queen of Affyria , who , after the death of her husband Ninus , put on man's apparel , and did many warlike actions . 109. Sad Cleopatra . ] The famous and unfortunate ...
... fortune again . 108. The quivered Semiramis . ] The famous warlike queen of Affyria , who , after the death of her husband Ninus , put on man's apparel , and did many warlike actions . 109. Sad Cleopatra . ] The famous and unfortunate ...
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... fortune in a ftring ? DRYDEN . 39. Such as from low state . ] The poet here reckons the ad- vancement of fuch low people to the height of opulence , as the fport of Fortune , as one of thofe frolics which the exercises out of mere ...
... fortune in a ftring ? DRYDEN . 39. Such as from low state . ] The poet here reckons the ad- vancement of fuch low people to the height of opulence , as the fport of Fortune , as one of thofe frolics which the exercises out of mere ...
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Page 372 - Catinensi pumice lumbum squalentes traducit avos emptorque veneni frangenda miseram funestat imagine gentem? tota licet veteres exornent undique cerae atria, nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.
Page 417 - I'll tell you, friend; a wife man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella.
Page 176 - Maecenas, upon whom at first he confetrefl the new honour. He was to precede all other city magistrates, having power to receive appeals from the inferior courts, and to decide almost all causes within the limits of Rome, or one hundred miles round. Before this, there was sometimes a pimfectus urbis created, when the kings, or the greater officers, were absent from the city, to administer justice in their room.
Page viii - The books that we learn at schools are generally laid aside, with this prejudice, that they were the labours as well as the sorrows of our childhood and education ; but they are among the best of books : the Greek and Roman authors have a spirit in them, a force both of thought and expression, that later ages have not been able to imitate...