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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... those rare me- teors , which fhone forth even in the darkness of Hea- thenifm . The mind and confcience of this great man were , though from whence he knew not , fo far en- lightened , as to perceive the ugliness of vice , and fo ...
... those rare me- teors , which fhone forth even in the darkness of Hea- thenifm . The mind and confcience of this great man were , though from whence he knew not , fo far en- lightened , as to perceive the ugliness of vice , and fo ...
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... those who delight in reading them often . " Paft . Care , c . vii . < c < c This tranflation was begun fome years ago , at hours of leifure , for the Editor's own amufement : when , on adding the notes as he went along , he found it ...
... those who delight in reading them often . " Paft . Care , c . vii . < c < c This tranflation was begun fome years ago , at hours of leifure , for the Editor's own amufement : when , on adding the notes as he went along , he found it ...
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... those days , the only way to riches and honours . Honefty and innocence will be commended , but those who poffefs them , be left to ftarve . 75. Gardens . ] i . e . Pleasant and beautiful retreats , where they had gardens of great tafte ...
... those days , the only way to riches and honours . Honefty and innocence will be commended , but those who poffefs them , be left to ftarve . 75. Gardens . ] i . e . Pleasant and beautiful retreats , where they had gardens of great tafte ...
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... those human follies and vices , which have exifted , and have been increafing , ever since the flood , are the fubjects of his fatires . 88. Bofom of avarice . ] A metaphorical allufion to the fail of a fhip when expanded to the wind ...
... those human follies and vices , which have exifted , and have been increafing , ever since the flood , are the fubjects of his fatires . 88. Bofom of avarice . ] A metaphorical allufion to the fail of a fhip when expanded to the wind ...
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... those who came in perfon - and in order to this , the greatest caution was commonly used . See 1.97-8 . The violent hurry which this impoftor appears to be in ( 1. 125. ) was , no doubt , occafioned by his fear of a discovery , if he ...
... those who came in perfon - and in order to this , the greatest caution was commonly used . See 1.97-8 . The violent hurry which this impoftor appears to be in ( 1. 125. ) was , no doubt , occafioned by his fear of a discovery , if he ...
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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...