Decii Junii Juvenalis et A. Persii Flacci SatiraeWhittaker and Company, 1867 - 466 pages |
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Page xv
... seems clear that not one of these notices is original . They have come , and that not at first hand probably , from two or three common stocks , which have been confounded according to the fancy of the writer ; and whatever amount of ...
... seems clear that not one of these notices is original . They have come , and that not at first hand probably , from two or three common stocks , which have been confounded according to the fancy of the writer ; and whatever amount of ...
Page xxi
... seems certain , the rest of the Satire was written long after Paris ' death . It is the way with the Roman Satirists to repre- sent living names and characters by dead , and some have supposed that by Paris is meant a favourite actor of ...
... seems certain , the rest of the Satire was written long after Paris ' death . It is the way with the Roman Satirists to repre- sent living names and characters by dead , and some have supposed that by Paris is meant a favourite actor of ...
Page xxviii
... seems to be that of one who had himself adopted the exaggerated opinion against Seneca , which the jealousy of his rivals and enemies gave rise to during his life ' . Of the young men whom the Grammarian describes in such high terms ...
... seems to be that of one who had himself adopted the exaggerated opinion against Seneca , which the jealousy of his rivals and enemies gave rise to during his life ' . Of the young men whom the Grammarian describes in such high terms ...
Page xxxiv
... seems also to have collected some of his philosophical matter from other writers ; for instance , Sat. x . 28 , & c . , greatly resembles a passage in Seneca De Tranquillitate Animi , c . 15 , ' Democritum potius ; ' and the matter of a ...
... seems also to have collected some of his philosophical matter from other writers ; for instance , Sat. x . 28 , & c . , greatly resembles a passage in Seneca De Tranquillitate Animi , c . 15 , ' Democritum potius ; ' and the matter of a ...
Page xxxvii
... seems to me impossible to read the work of the so - called Declamator without feeling the great difference between him and the writer of the ten undisputed Satires . Whether that difference is best explained by assuming that we have two ...
... seems to me impossible to read the work of the so - called Declamator without feeling the great difference between him and the writer of the ten undisputed Satires . Whether that difference is best explained by assuming that we have two ...
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Page 321 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
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Page 298 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 24 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
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Page 308 - As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Page 24 - Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise : and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Page 391 - And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 33 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall.
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