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... Rome ; when , in short , there was no danger of speaking out , he still appears , continue they , to be ignorant of his friend's poetick talents . I am almost ashamed to repeat what the criticks so constantly forget - that Juvenal was ...
... Rome ; when , in short , there was no danger of speaking out , he still appears , continue they , to be ignorant of his friend's poetick talents . I am almost ashamed to repeat what the criticks so constantly forget - that Juvenal was ...
Page xxxiii
... Rome CXVIII . which he states to be also that of the author's banishment . It must be confessed , that Juvenal lost no time in exerting himself : he had remained silent fourscore years ; he now bursts forth at once , as Dodwell ...
... Rome CXVIII . which he states to be also that of the author's banishment . It must be confessed , that Juvenal lost no time in exerting himself : he had remained silent fourscore years ; he now bursts forth at once , as Dodwell ...
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... Rome , question ; the second was consul A. D. 13 , the third in 59 , and the fourth in 68. If we take the second , and add any inter- mediate number of years between sixty and seventy , for Calvinus had passed his sixtieth year , it ...
... Rome , question ; the second was consul A. D. 13 , the third in 59 , and the fourth in 68. If we take the second , and add any inter- mediate number of years between sixty and seventy , for Calvinus had passed his sixtieth year , it ...
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Juvenal. not easy to say ; but Ennius , who came to Rome about twenty years after this period , and who was more than half a Grecian , conceived that he should perform an acceptable service by reviving the ancient Satires . * He did not ...
Juvenal. not easy to say ; but Ennius , who came to Rome about twenty years after this period , and who was more than half a Grecian , conceived that he should perform an acceptable service by reviving the ancient Satires . * He did not ...
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... Rome was now complete ; yet he felt , at least he expresses , no indignation at the means by which it was ef- fected a sanguinary buffoon was lording it over the prostrate world ; yet he continued to waste his most elaborate efforts on ...
... Rome was now complete ; yet he felt , at least he expresses , no indignation at the means by which it was ef- fected a sanguinary buffoon was lording it over the prostrate world ; yet he continued to waste his most elaborate efforts on ...
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Page 195 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page 316 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 384 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 443 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Page 218 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Page 12 - As this is the first passage, in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the relative situation of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome.
Page x - Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. I considered it as a treasure; but it was a treasure locked up; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equation, and I knew nothing of the matter.
Page 10 - tis so concluded on. Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, — Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd, — They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Page xi - ... with favours more substantial : little collections were now and then made, and I have received sixpence in an evening. To one who had long lived in the absolute want of money, such a resource seemed a Peruvian mine : I furnished myself by degrees with paper, &c. and what was of more importance, with books of geometry, and of the higher branches of algebra, which I cautiously concealed. Poetry, even at this time, was no amusement of mine : it was subservient to other purposes ; and I only had...
Page 51 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.