The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes1806 |
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... BARON GROSVENOR , THIS TRANSLATION OF JUVENAL IS INSCRIBED , AS AN HUMBLE , BUT SINCERE TESTIMONY , OF THE GRATITUDE AND RESPECT OF THE TRANSLATOR . May 1st , 1802 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . A NEW Edition of ΤΟ ...
... BARON GROSVENOR , THIS TRANSLATION OF JUVENAL IS INSCRIBED , AS AN HUMBLE , BUT SINCERE TESTIMONY , OF THE GRATITUDE AND RESPECT OF THE TRANSLATOR . May 1st , 1802 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . A NEW Edition of ΤΟ ...
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... Respect for the opi- nion of the town ( which , whether correct or not , was , that he had repaid himself by the sale of my mother's effects ) induced him to send me again to school , where I was more diligent than before , and more ...
... Respect for the opi- nion of the town ( which , whether correct or not , was , that he had repaid himself by the sale of my mother's effects ) induced him to send me again to school , where I was more diligent than before , and more ...
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... respect ; and at this distant period , my heart sinks within me at every repetition of his name . Many of these papers were distributed ; the terms , which I extract from one of them , were these : " The work shall be to obviate any ...
... respect ; and at this distant period , my heart sinks within me at every repetition of his name . Many of these papers were distributed ; the terms , which I extract from one of them , were these : " The work shall be to obviate any ...
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... respect- ing my future means of support . I have a heart- felt pleasure in mentioning this indulgence of my college : it could arise from nothing but the liberal desire inherent , I think , in the members of both our Universities , to ...
... respect- ing my future means of support . I have a heart- felt pleasure in mentioning this indulgence of my college : it could arise from nothing but the liberal desire inherent , I think , in the members of both our Universities , to ...
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... respect to the 16th Satire , Dodwell , we see , hesitates to attribute it to Juvenal ; and indeed the old Scholiast says that , in his time , many thought it to be the work of a different hand . So it always appeared to me . It is ...
... respect to the 16th Satire , Dodwell , we see , hesitates to attribute it to Juvenal ; and indeed the old Scholiast says that , in his time , many thought it to be the work of a different hand . So it always appeared to me . It is ...
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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.