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Page liii
... . Had her husband bidden her go on board a ship , she would have deemed it an act of cruelty ; no woman has boldness but for acts of shame ! ( 60-135 . ) If a husband believes in his wife's virtue , it liii INTRODUCTION.
... . Had her husband bidden her go on board a ship , she would have deemed it an act of cruelty ; no woman has boldness but for acts of shame ! ( 60-135 . ) If a husband believes in his wife's virtue , it liii INTRODUCTION.
Page lxviii
... deem him a prodigy . I liken him to a shower of stones , or to a pregnant mule , or to a river running white with milk . What if some other man have lost ten times as much as you ? So easy is it to escape the notice of heaven if no man ...
... deem him a prodigy . I liken him to a shower of stones , or to a pregnant mule , or to a river running white with milk . What if some other man have lost ten times as much as you ? So easy is it to escape the notice of heaven if no man ...
Page lxix
... deem yourself outside the common lot of man , as though hatched from a white and lucky egg ? Look at the list of crimes daily brought before the Court and dare to call yourself unfortunate ! Who wonders at a swollen neck in the Alps ...
... deem yourself outside the common lot of man , as though hatched from a white and lucky egg ? Look at the list of crimes daily brought before the Court and dare to call yourself unfortunate ! Who wonders at a swollen neck in the Alps ...
Page lxxi
... deemed themselves happy with a reward of two acres , which to - day would not be thought big enough for a garden . In the hurry to be rich no law is regarded , no crime stops the way . Foreign purple has banished the hardy contentment ...
... deemed themselves happy with a reward of two acres , which to - day would not be thought big enough for a garden . In the hurry to be rich no law is regarded , no crime stops the way . Foreign purple has banished the hardy contentment ...
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... deem these things worthy of the Venusian's lamp ? Must I not have my fling at them ? Should I do better to tell tales about Hercules , or Dio- mede , or the bellowing in the Labyrinth , or about the flying carpenter and the lad who ...
... deem these things worthy of the Venusian's lamp ? Must I not have my fling at them ? Should I do better to tell tales about Hercules , or Dio- mede , or the bellowing in the Labyrinth , or about the flying carpenter and the lad who ...
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Page 198 - Augustum. iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli vendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, 80 panem et circenses. 'perituros audio multos.
Page 318 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
Page 328 - Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, Callidus excusso populum suspendere naso. Men' mutire nefas, nee clam, nee cum scrobe?
Page 220 - ... animum, mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil, et potiores 360 Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et Venere et cenis et pluma Sardauapalli.
Page 386 - Jus habet ille sui palpo quem ducit hiantem Cretata ambitio ? Vigila, et cicer ingere large Rixanti populo, nostra ut Floralia possint Aprici meminisse senes...
Page 318 - ... serena ingentis trepidare Titos, cum carmina lumbum 20 intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu. tun, vetule, auriculis alienis colligis escas, articulis quibus et dicas cute perditus 'ohe'?
Page 36 - ... ite, quibus grata est picta lupa barbara mitra. rusticus ille tuus sumit trechedipna, Quirine, et ceromatico fert niceteria collo.
Page 316 - O CURAS hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane ! " "quis leget haec ? " " min tu istud ais ? nemo hercule." " nemo ?
Page 334 - Haud cuivis promptum est murmurque humilesque susurros Tollere de templis et aperto vivere voto. Mens bona, fama, fides...
Page 320 - Quisquis es, o modo quem ex adverso dicere feci, Non ego, quum scribo, si forte quid aptius exit, (Quando haec rara avis est) si quid tamen aptius exit', Laudari metuam ; neque enim mihi cornea fibra est. Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso EUGE tuum et BELLE. Nam BELLE hoc excute totum : Quid non intus habet?