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Page xxix
... observes : Tam longe ab- erant illa a Paridis ira concitanda , si vel superstite Paride fuissent scripta , eum irritare non possent , cum nondum emanassent in pub- licum . 161. He then adds that " Martial knew nothing of his poetical ...
... observes : Tam longe ab- erant illa a Paridis ira concitanda , si vel superstite Paride fuissent scripta , eum irritare non possent , cum nondum emanassent in pub- licum . 161. He then adds that " Martial knew nothing of his poetical ...
Page xxxii
... observes that Quintilian was a man of moderate fortune , it follows that he must have acquired the wealth and honours of which Juvenal speaks , days , and seems but little suited to his worst . He was at least eighty - one , they say ...
... observes that Quintilian was a man of moderate fortune , it follows that he must have acquired the wealth and honours of which Juvenal speaks , days , and seems but little suited to his worst . He was at least eighty - one , they say ...
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... observe too , that Juvenal speaks here of the crimes of Marius : they might be , and probably were , committed long ... observes that it had escaped Lipsius and Salmasius ; and boasts of it , as longe certissimum & c . 156 . and soon ...
... observe too , that Juvenal speaks here of the crimes of Marius : they might be , and probably were , committed long ... observes that it had escaped Lipsius and Salmasius ; and boasts of it , as longe certissimum & c . 156 . and soon ...
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... observes , always dis- regarded the graces and elegancies of composition , spread with amazing rapidity . * In this school Persius was educated , under the care of one of its most learned and respectable masters . Satire was not his ...
... observes , always dis- regarded the graces and elegancies of composition , spread with amazing rapidity . * In this school Persius was educated , under the care of one of its most learned and respectable masters . Satire was not his ...
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... be forgotten , however , that this intrepid champion of virtue , who , under the twelfth despot , persisted , as Du- saulx observes , in recognising no sovereign but the senate , while he passes by those whose safety ROMAN SATIRISTS .
... be forgotten , however , that this intrepid champion of virtue , who , under the twelfth despot , persisted , as Du- saulx observes , in recognising no sovereign but the senate , while he passes by those whose safety ROMAN SATIRISTS .
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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.