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 ReaderEditor, and sold at T. Becket's, 1789 - 443 Seiten |
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... feems to be , that , as all , whe- ther good or bad , wrote poems , why should not he , who had had an education in learning , write as well as they ? 18. Paper that will perish . ] i . e . That will be deftroyed by others , B 4 Cur ...
... feems to be , that , as all , whe- ther good or bad , wrote poems , why should not he , who had had an education in learning , write as well as they ? 18. Paper that will perish . ] i . e . That will be deftroyed by others , B 4 Cur ...
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... feems to be meant . The poet is mentioning various fub- jects , as highly proper for fatyr ; and , among others , fome fa- vourite at court , who , after fpending all his paternal estate in riot , extravagance , and debauchery , was ...
... feems to be meant . The poet is mentioning various fub- jects , as highly proper for fatyr ; and , among others , fome fa- vourite at court , who , after fpending all his paternal estate in riot , extravagance , and debauchery , was ...
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... feems a proverbial fay- ing and applies to what goes before , as well as to what fol- lows , wherein the poet is fhewing , that vice was , in those days , the only way to riches and honours . Honefty and innocence will be commended ...
... feems a proverbial fay- ing and applies to what goes before , as well as to what fol- lows , wherein the poet is fhewing , that vice was , in those days , the only way to riches and honours . Honefty and innocence will be commended ...
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... feems to be implied by the word pofitâ . Pono fometimes fignifies - laying a wager- putting down as a stake . See an example of this fenfe , from Plautus , AINSW . pono , N ° 5 . 91. How many battles , & c . ] i . e . How many attacks ...
... feems to be implied by the word pofitâ . Pono fometimes fignifies - laying a wager- putting down as a stake . See an example of this fenfe , from Plautus , AINSW . pono , N ° 5 . 91. How many battles , & c . ] i . e . How many attacks ...
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... feems to have been proper to incendiaries , in which light the poet humour- oufly fuppofes the fatirizers of the emperor's favourites , and other great men , to be looked upon at that time . After Nero had burnt Rome , to fatisfy his ...
... feems to have been proper to incendiaries , in which light the poet humour- oufly fuppofes the fatirizers of the emperor's favourites , and other great men , to be looked upon at that time . After Nero had burnt Rome , to fatisfy his ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...