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... satire tickled without stinging . Few authors have furnished a larger number of maxims for the government or illustration of com- mon life . Goldsmith's opinion of him is expressed in his complimentary line on Cumberland : - The Terence ...
... satire tickled without stinging . Few authors have furnished a larger number of maxims for the government or illustration of com- mon life . Goldsmith's opinion of him is expressed in his complimentary line on Cumberland : - The Terence ...
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... satire and reprehension , which makes vice wince instead of tickling it . After the departure of Alcibiades and his beagles , Timon bursts out into the following angry soliloquy : - That nature being sick of man's unkindness , Should ...
... satire and reprehension , which makes vice wince instead of tickling it . After the departure of Alcibiades and his beagles , Timon bursts out into the following angry soliloquy : - That nature being sick of man's unkindness , Should ...
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... satire against him ; in which is sup- posed to have been the verse quoted by Aulus Gellius : " Eupolidis quoque versus de id genus hominibus consignatissime factus est , λαλεῖν ἄριςος , ἀδυνατώτατος λέγειν : quod Sallustius noster ...
... satire against him ; in which is sup- posed to have been the verse quoted by Aulus Gellius : " Eupolidis quoque versus de id genus hominibus consignatissime factus est , λαλεῖν ἄριςος , ἀδυνατώτατος λέγειν : quod Sallustius noster ...
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... satirical turn , even in his religious compositions . His enemies alleged , that he was incompetent to the composition of any extended work . He answers them sarcastically by versifying the proverb , Μέγα βιβλίον , μέγα κακὸν . But he ...
... satirical turn , even in his religious compositions . His enemies alleged , that he was incompetent to the composition of any extended work . He answers them sarcastically by versifying the proverb , Μέγα βιβλίον , μέγα κακὸν . But he ...
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... Satires and Epistles . His filial piety was most creditable to good feel- ing . He was far from the affectation of wishing to sink his parentage : on the contrary , he delights in talking of his father ; and represents him , both in the ...
... Satires and Epistles . His filial piety was most creditable to good feel- ing . He was far from the affectation of wishing to sink his parentage : on the contrary , he delights in talking of his father ; and represents him , both in the ...
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Page 303 - And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
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Page 293 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 87 - Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
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Page 232 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.