A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Explanatory Notes in which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Band 1N. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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... deaths of many of the nobility in the time of Domitian . Some think that the great friend here mentioned was some great man , an intimate of Domitian's ; for this emperor spared not even his greatest and most intimate friends , on ...
... deaths of many of the nobility in the time of Domitian . Some think that the great friend here mentioned was some great man , an intimate of Domitian's ; for this emperor spared not even his greatest and most intimate friends , on ...
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... death , left them their heirs , in preference to all others . 39. The best way , & c . ] By this the poet means to expose and condemn these monstrous indecencies . -Into heaven . ] i . e . Into the highest state of affluence . 40 ...
... death , left them their heirs , in preference to all others . 39. The best way , & c . ] By this the poet means to expose and condemn these monstrous indecencies . -Into heaven . ] i . e . Into the highest state of affluence . 40 ...
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... deaths , and intestate old age . [ 145 A new story , nor is it a sorrowful one , goes thro ' all companies : A funeral , to be applauded by angry friends , is carried forth . 140. Filthiness of luxury . ] Sordes - nastiness - a happy ...
... deaths , and intestate old age . [ 145 A new story , nor is it a sorrowful one , goes thro ' all companies : A funeral , to be applauded by angry friends , is carried forth . 140. Filthiness of luxury . ] Sordes - nastiness - a happy ...
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... death , instead of lamenting it . See PERS . sat . vi . 33 , 4 . 148. To our morals . ] Our vices and debaucheries , owing to the depravity and corruption of our morals . Those born after us . ] Minores , i . e . natu — our descendents ...
... death , instead of lamenting it . See PERS . sat . vi . 33 , 4 . 148. To our morals . ] Our vices and debaucheries , owing to the depravity and corruption of our morals . Those born after us . ] Minores , i . e . natu — our descendents ...
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... death , he forged wills for them , by which he became possessed of all they had . He likewise impeached several of the nobility , and got their estates . See more in AINSW . under Tigellinus . Shall he , therefore , & c . ] " And ...
... death , he forged wills for them , by which he became possessed of all they had . He likewise impeached several of the nobility , and got their estates . See more in AINSW . under Tigellinus . Shall he , therefore , & c . ] " And ...
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Seite 347 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Seite 218 - O demens, ita servus homo est? nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
Seite 234 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Seite 192 - Credo Pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris visamque diu, cum frigida parvas praeberet spelunca domos, ignemque Laremque et pecus et dominos communi clauderet umbra...
Seite 148 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Seite vi - The satyrical Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.
Seite 220 - Is there any woman that blushes at divorce now that certain illustrious and noble ladies reckon their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands...
Seite 218 - Pone crucem servo: meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium ? quis testis adest ? quis detulit ? audi : Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.
Seite 76 - Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest Lachesi, quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Seite 50 - Thus and no farther shall my passion stray ; " The first crime past, compels us on to more, " And guilt proves fate, which was but choice before.