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... observe that Nestor lived for many returns of this season . Attend . ] The poet calls for attention to what he is going to prove , by various examples , namely , that happiness does not consist in long life . 251-2 . Laws of the fates ...
... observe that Nestor lived for many returns of this season . Attend . ] The poet calls for attention to what he is going to prove , by various examples , namely , that happiness does not consist in long life . 251-2 . Laws of the fates ...
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... observe , that some copies read , 1. 365 , Nullum numen abest , & c . No deity is absent , & c . As if it were said ... observations on this Tenth Satire of Juvenal , without calling it the finest piece , in point of composition , matter ...
... observe , that some copies read , 1. 365 , Nullum numen abest , & c . No deity is absent , & c . As if it were said ... observations on this Tenth Satire of Juvenal , without calling it the finest piece , in point of composition , matter ...
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... , as Virgil and Claudian observe , were plentifully furnished with white sacrifices for Jupiter Capitolinus See VIRG . Georg . lib . ii , 146-8 . Its mother's dugs , and teazes the oaks with its 88 SAT . XII . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... , as Virgil and Claudian observe , were plentifully furnished with white sacrifices for Jupiter Capitolinus See VIRG . Georg . lib . ii , 146-8 . Its mother's dugs , and teazes the oaks with its 88 SAT . XII . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
Page 89
... observation , nor know where they were , or which way to steer . Such a cir- cumstance is awfully related , Acts xxvii . 20 . 19. A sudden fire , & c . ] A flash of lightning struck the sail - yards , and set the sails on fire . 20 ...
... observation , nor know where they were , or which way to steer . Such a cir- cumstance is awfully related , Acts xxvii . 20 . 19. A sudden fire , & c . ] A flash of lightning struck the sail - yards , and set the sails on fire . 20 ...
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... observed ( sat . ii . 1. 58. ) that the Romans wrote on thin planks of wood , called tabulæ : these were smeared over with wax , on which the letters were made with the point of a sort of bodkin , called stylus , which was flat at one ...
... observed ( sat . ii . 1. 58. ) that the Romans wrote on thin planks of wood , called tabulæ : these were smeared over with wax , on which the letters were made with the point of a sort of bodkin , called stylus , which was flat at one ...
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Page 85 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 54 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations. and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 284 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 50 The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 54 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
Page 262 - ... ait Pedio. Pedius quid? crimina rasis 85 librat in antithetis, doctas posuisse figuras laudatur: 'bellum hoc.' hoc bellum? an, Romule, ceves? men moveat?
Page 8 - Quippe tenet sudans hanc publicus, et, sibi Consul Ne placeat, curru servus portatur eodem. Da nunc et volucrem, sceptro quae surgit eburno, Illinc cornicines, hinc praecedentia longi Agminis officia et niveos ad fraena Quirites, 45 Defossa in loculis quos sportula fecit amicos.
Page 2 - Letter, to the serious perusal and practice of the divines in his diocese, as the best commonplaces for their sermons, as the store-houses and magazines of moral virtues, from whence they may draw out, as they have occasion, all manner of assistance for the accomplishment of a virtuous life, which the stoics have assigned for the great end and perfection of mankind.
Page 350 - Disce ! sed ira cadat naso rugosaque sanna, Dum veteres avias tibi de pulmone revello. Non praetoris erat stultis dare tenuia rerum Officia, atque usum rapidos permittere vitae.
Page 362 - Indulge Genio, carpamus dulcia, nostrum est Quod vivis : cinis et Manes et fabula fies ; [Vive memor leti, fugit hora, hoc quod loquor inde est.] " En quid agis ? duplici in diversum scinderis hamo, Hunccine an hunc sequeris.
Page 388 - Age, si mihi nulla Iam reliqua ex amitis, patruelis nulla, proneptis Nulla manet patrui, sterilis matertera vixit, Deque avia nihilum superest, accedo Bovillas 55 Clivumque ad Virbi, praesto est mihi Manius heres.