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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Seite i
... writing Satire : but , having faid fomething ( Sat. vii . 1. 88-92 . ) which was deemed a reflection on Paris the actor , a minion of Domitian's , he was ba- nifhed into Egypt , in the eightieth year of his age , under pretence of ...
... writing Satire : but , having faid fomething ( Sat. vii . 1. 88-92 . ) which was deemed a reflection on Paris the actor , a minion of Domitian's , he was ba- nifhed into Egypt , in the eightieth year of his age , under pretence of ...
Seite ii
... writer , his style is unrivalled , in point of elegance and beauty , by any Satirist that we are ac- quainted with , Horace not excepted . The plainnefs of his expreffions are derived from the honesty and in- tegrity of his own mind ...
... writer , his style is unrivalled , in point of elegance and beauty , by any Satirist that we are ac- quainted with , Horace not excepted . The plainnefs of his expreffions are derived from the honesty and in- tegrity of his own mind ...
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... writing , for the utility of faithful tranflation . * I trust that I fhall not be reckoned guilty of inconsistency , if , in fome few paffages , I have made ufe of paraphrafe , which I have fo ftudioufly avoided through the reft of the ...
... writing , for the utility of faithful tranflation . * I trust that I fhall not be reckoned guilty of inconsistency , if , in fome few paffages , I have made ufe of paraphrafe , which I have fo ftudioufly avoided through the reft of the ...
Seite 2
... writing : fuch as hearing , so often , many ill poets rehearse their works , and intending to repay them in kind . Next he informs us , why he addicts himself to fatire , rather than to other poetry , and gives a fummary and ge- neral ...
... writing : fuch as hearing , so often , many ill poets rehearse their works , and intending to repay them in kind . Next he informs us , why he addicts himself to fatire , rather than to other poetry , and gives a fummary and ge- neral ...
Seite 3
... writing , and reciting his verses , as they had done theirs . Sat. vii . I. 40-4 . Perfius Prolog . 1. 7. Hor . Lib . 1. Sat. iv . 1. 73-4 . 2. Thefeis . ] A poem , of which Thefeus was the fubject . Hoarfe Codrus . ] A very mean poet ...
... writing , and reciting his verses , as they had done theirs . Sat. vii . I. 40-4 . Perfius Prolog . 1. 7. Hor . Lib . 1. Sat. iv . 1. 73-4 . 2. Thefeis . ] A poem , of which Thefeus was the fubject . Hoarfe Codrus . ] A very mean poet ...
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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...