The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes1806 |
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... head of the school , and qualified to assist my master ( Mr. E. Furlong ) on any extraordinary emergency . As he usually gave me a trifle on those occasions , it raised a thought in me , that by engaging with him as a regular assistant ...
... head of the school , and qualified to assist my master ( Mr. E. Furlong ) on any extraordinary emergency . As he usually gave me a trifle on those occasions , it raised a thought in me , that by engaging with him as a regular assistant ...
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... it is necessary to bring the works of our author down to a late period , it means , as Britannicus explains it , de longo tempore , long ago . now at the head of the government , and showed xxviii THE LIFE OF JUVENAL .
... it is necessary to bring the works of our author down to a late period , it means , as Britannicus explains it , de longo tempore , long ago . now at the head of the government , and showed xxviii THE LIFE OF JUVENAL .
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Juvenal. now at the head of the government , and showed symptoms of reviving that system of favouritism which had nearly ruined the empire under Claudius , by his unbounded partiality for a young pantomime dancer of the name of Paris ...
Juvenal. now at the head of the government , and showed symptoms of reviving that system of favouritism which had nearly ruined the empire under Claudius , by his unbounded partiality for a young pantomime dancer of the name of Paris ...
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... head of his works . As the order is every where broken in upon , it is utterly impossible to arrange them chronologically ; but I am inclined to think that the eleventh Satire closed his poetical career . * * I have often wondered at ...
... head of his works . As the order is every where broken in upon , it is utterly impossible to arrange them chronologically ; but I am inclined to think that the eleventh Satire closed his poetical career . * * I have often wondered at ...
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... head , " Cares he for Talus , or his flayle of lead ? " PERSIUS , who borrowed so much of Horace's language , has little of his manner . The immediate object of his imitation seems to be Lucilius ; and if he lashes vice with less ...
... head , " Cares he for Talus , or his flayle of lead ? " PERSIUS , who borrowed so much of Horace's language , has little of his manner . The immediate object of his imitation seems to be Lucilius ; and if he lashes vice with less ...
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Страница 449 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Страница 324 - 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: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
Страница 390 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Страница 305 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Страница lxx - The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original.
Страница xv - In this humble and obscure state, poor beyond the common lot, yet flattering my ambition with day-dreams which, perhaps, would never have been realized, I was found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which I have already mentioned, and which had passed from mouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had by some accident or other reached his ear, and given him a curiosity to inquire after the...
Страница 326 - Skill'd to reverse whate'er the gods create, And make that crooked which they fashion straight : Hard choice for man, to die — or else to be That tottering, wretched, wrinkled thing you see. Age, then, we all prefer ; for age we pray, And travel on to life's last lingering day ; Then sinking slowly down from worse to worse, Find heaven's extorted boon our greatest curse.
Страница xii - I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodging-house. 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.
Страница xiii - Sec. 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 recourse to it, when I wanted money for my mathematical pursuits.
Страница xlvii - Eupolis atque Cratinus Aristophanesque poetae, Atque alii, quorum comoedia prisca virorum est, Si quis erat dignus describi, quod malus ac fur, Quod moechus foret aut sicarius aut alioqui Famosus, multa cum libertate notabant.