A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1829 - Latin poetry |
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... present size , in which it appears in print , with a design to add its assistance in explaining these difficult authors not only to school - boys and young beginners , but to numbers in a more advanced age , who , by having been thrown ...
... present size , in which it appears in print , with a design to add its assistance in explaining these difficult authors not only to school - boys and young beginners , but to numbers in a more advanced age , who , by having been thrown ...
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... present publication be found to answer this end , not only to school - boys , but to those also who would be glad to recover such a competent knowledge of the Latin tongue , as to encourage the renewal of their acquaintance with the ...
... present publication be found to answer this end , not only to school - boys , but to those also who would be glad to recover such a competent knowledge of the Latin tongue , as to encourage the renewal of their acquaintance with the ...
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... present ? says the poet . gaming ; put here for gaming itself . -The die . ] A chief instrument of ΜΕΤΟΝ . 89. These spirits . ] Animus signifies spirit or courage ; and in this sense we are to understand it here . As if the poet said ...
... present ? says the poet . gaming ; put here for gaming itself . -The die . ] A chief instrument of ΜΕΤΟΝ . 89. These spirits . ] Animus signifies spirit or courage ; and in this sense we are to understand it here . As if the poet said ...
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... present . Why should I fear , or doubt to defend my place ? altho ' Born at the Euphrates , which the soft holes in my ear Prove , though I should deny it but five houses Procure 400 ( sestertia ) , what does the purple confer more To ...
... present . Why should I fear , or doubt to defend my place ? altho ' Born at the Euphrates , which the soft holes in my ear Prove , though I should deny it but five houses Procure 400 ( sestertia ) , what does the purple confer more To ...
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... present punishment , when you put off your clothes , Turgid , and carry an indigested peacock to the baths : Hence sudden deaths , and intestate old age . It nova , nec tristis per cunctas fabula cœnas : 135 140 138. At one meal ...
... present punishment , when you put off your clothes , Turgid , and carry an indigested peacock to the baths : Hence sudden deaths , and intestate old age . It nova , nec tristis per cunctas fabula cœnas : 135 140 138. At one meal ...
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Page 287 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 300 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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Page 3 - The satyrical Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.