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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... fenfe to 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 ...
... fenfe to 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 ...
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... fo ftudioufly avoided through the reft of the work , be- cause the literal fenfe of thefe is better obfcured than explained , especially to young minds . The The next thing to be confidered , after knowing what vi PREFACE .
... fo ftudioufly avoided through the reft of the work , be- cause the literal fenfe of thefe is better obfcured than explained , especially to young minds . The The next thing to be confidered , after knowing what vi PREFACE .
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... fenfe of it in this place , as it follows the fi vacat . 22. Mævia ] The name of fome woman , who had the im pudence to fight in the Circus with a Tufcan boar.- The Tufcan boars were reckoned the fierceft . 23. With a naked breaft ...
... fenfe of it in this place , as it follows the fi vacat . 22. Mævia ] The name of fome woman , who had the im pudence to fight in the Circus with a Tufcan boar.- The Tufcan boars were reckoned the fierceft . 23. With a naked breaft ...
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... fenfe here , and the poet may mean , that , this fpendthrift had lavished his 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 ...
... fenfe here , and the poet may mean , that , this fpendthrift had lavished his 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 ...
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... fenfe we are to understand it here . As if the poet faid , When was gaming fo encouraged ? or when had games of ha- zard , which were forbidden by the law ( except only during the Saturnalia ) the courage to appear fo open and ...
... fenfe we are to understand it here . As if the poet faid , When was gaming fo encouraged ? or when had games of ha- zard , which were forbidden by the law ( except only during the Saturnalia ) the courage to appear fo open and ...
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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...