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 : in Two Volumes, Volume 1 |
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Page iv
... give a man a deteftation of vice , and a contempt of the common methods of mankind ; which " they have fet out in fuch true colours , that they must give a very generous fenfe to those who delight in reading them often . " Paft . Care ...
... give a man a deteftation of vice , and a contempt of the common methods of mankind ; which " they have fet out in fuch true colours , that they must give a very generous fenfe to those who delight in reading them often . " Paft . Care ...
Page v
... give an account of every neceffary word ; this will drive him to his grammar and dictionary , near as much as if he had no tranfla- tion at all : but in private , when the boy is preparing his leffon , a literal tranflation , and ...
... give an account of every neceffary word ; this will drive him to his grammar and dictionary , near as much as if he had no tranfla- tion at all : but in private , when the boy is preparing his leffon , a literal tranflation , and ...
Page vi
... gives to actors , at leaft , if they mean to affift the ftudent , by helping him to the conftruction , that he may understand the language of the author . - As the actor is not " to o'erfiep the modefty of nature " -fo a tranflator is ...
... gives to actors , at leaft , if they mean to affift the ftudent , by helping him to the conftruction , that he may understand the language of the author . - As the actor is not " to o'erfiep the modefty of nature " -fo a tranflator is ...
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... gives a fummary and ge- neral view of the reigning vices and follies of his time . He SEMI ego tantum EMPER ego auditor tantum ? nunquamne reponam , Vexatus toties rauci Thefeïde Codri ? Impunè ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas ...
... gives a fummary and ge- neral view of the reigning vices and follies of his time . He SEMI ego tantum EMPER ego auditor tantum ? nunquamne reponam , Vexatus toties rauci Thefeïde Codri ? Impunè ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas ...
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... give of her drunken husband , reprefents her as mentioning a like particular- 66 My whole night's comfort is the ... gives the matter up . This paf- fage ( fays he ) is one of thofe , concerning which we are yet " to feek . " 46 64 But ...
... give of her drunken husband , reprefents her as mentioning a like particular- 66 My whole night's comfort is the ... gives the matter up . This paf- fage ( fays he ) is one of thofe , concerning which we are yet " to feek . " 46 64 But ...
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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...