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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... fevere and able re- prover , a faithful and diligent witness against the vices and follies of the people among which he lived ; Rom . ii . 15. Comp . If . xlv . 5. See Sat. x . 1. 363 , and note . a 2 and and , indeed , against all ...
... fevere and able re- prover , a faithful and diligent witness against the vices and follies of the people among which he lived ; Rom . ii . 15. Comp . If . xlv . 5. See Sat. x . 1. 363 , and note . a 2 and and , indeed , against all ...
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... fevere reflection on certain favourites of the emperor , who , by being informers , and by other scandalous actions , had enriched themselves . Probity is praised , & c . ] This feems a proverbial fay- ing and applies to what goes ...
... fevere reflection on certain favourites of the emperor , who , by being informers , and by other scandalous actions , had enriched themselves . Probity is praised , & c . ] This feems a proverbial fay- ing and applies to what goes ...
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... fevere law on thofe who did this , at or near the images of great men . This our poet turns into a jeft on the ftatues above mentioned . Some are for giving the line another turn , as if Juvenal meant , that it was right , or lawful ...
... fevere law on thofe who did this , at or near the images of great men . This our poet turns into a jeft on the ftatues above mentioned . Some are for giving the line another turn , as if Juvenal meant , that it was right , or lawful ...
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... fevere as to their outward afpect , within full of the most horrid lewdnefs and obfcenities , which they prac- tife in fecret . The poet ufes the word obfcœnis fubftantively , by which he marks them the more ftrongly . -- Doft thou ...
... fevere as to their outward afpect , within full of the most horrid lewdnefs and obfcenities , which they prac- tife in fecret . The poet ufes the word obfcœnis fubftantively , by which he marks them the more ftrongly . -- Doft thou ...
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... fevere laws of Julius Cæfar against adultery , which were after- wards made more fevere by Augustus . Bitter to all . ] Severe and rigid to the laft degree . Many perfons , of both fexes , Domitian put to death for adul- tery . See Univ ...
... fevere laws of Julius Cæfar against adultery , which were after- wards made more fevere by Augustus . Bitter to all . ] Severe and rigid to the laft degree . Many perfons , of both fexes , Domitian put to death for adul- tery . See Univ ...
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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...