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 : in Two Volumes, Band 1Editor, and sold at T. Becket's, 1789 - 443 Seiten |
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... fuch true colours , that they must give a very generous 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 ...
... fuch true colours , that they must give a very generous 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 ...
Seite viii
... fuch a competent knowledge of the Latin tongue , as to encourage the renewal of their acquaintance with the Claffics ( whofe writings fo richly contribute to ornament the higher and more polished walks in life , and which none but the ...
... fuch a competent knowledge of the Latin tongue , as to encourage the renewal of their acquaintance with the Claffics ( whofe writings fo richly contribute to ornament the higher and more polished walks in life , and which none but the ...
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... fuch , were called prætextate . In our time , we should fay , genteel comedy . III . The Palliata from pallium , a fort of upper garment worn by the Greeks , and in which the actors were habited , when the manners and actions of the ...
... fuch , were called prætextate . In our time , we should fay , genteel comedy . III . The Palliata from pallium , a fort of upper garment worn by the Greeks , and in which the actors were habited , when the manners and actions of the ...
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... fuch as I , or Cluvienus . 80 From the time that Deucalion ( the fhowers lifting up the fea ) Afcended the mountain with his bark , and asked for lots , And the foft ftones by little and little grew warm with life , And Pyrrha fhewed to ...
... fuch as I , or Cluvienus . 80 From the time that Deucalion ( the fhowers lifting up the fea ) Afcended the mountain with his bark , and asked for lots , And the foft ftones by little and little grew warm with life , And Pyrrha fhewed to ...
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... fuch an extravagant height , that gamefters are not con- tent to play for what can be carried in their purfes , but stake a whole cheft of money at a time - this feems to be implied by the word pofitâ . Pono fometimes fignifies - laying ...
... fuch an extravagant height , that gamefters are not con- tent to play for what can be carried in their purfes , but stake a whole cheft of money at a time - this feems to be implied by the word pofitâ . Pono fometimes fignifies - laying ...
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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...