The Satires of Decimus Junius JuvenalisW. Bulmer, 1806 - 473 pages |
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... dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the historians say , in oder , to pro- pitiate the gods , called in a troop of players from Tuscany , to assist at the celebration of their ancient festivals . This was a wise and a salutary measure ...
... dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the historians say , in oder , to pro- pitiate the gods , called in a troop of players from Tuscany , to assist at the celebration of their ancient festivals . This was a wise and a salutary measure ...
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... times , practised without fear , what he en- joyed without restraint . 1 The space between Horace and his predecessor , was a dreadful interval " filled up with horrour all , and big with death . " Luxury and 1 AN ESSAY ON THE.
... times , practised without fear , what he en- joyed without restraint . 1 The space between Horace and his predecessor , was a dreadful interval " filled up with horrour all , and big with death . " Luxury and 1 AN ESSAY ON THE.
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... dreadful celerity ; and dan- ger , which could only be averted by complying with a caprice not always easy to discover , created an abject disposition , fitted for the reception of the grossest vices , and eminently favourable to the ...
... dreadful celerity ; and dan- ger , which could only be averted by complying with a caprice not always easy to discover , created an abject disposition , fitted for the reception of the grossest vices , and eminently favourable to the ...
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... dreadful resource of men of desperate fortunes and desperate characters . In this he seems to have been successful : he has a chair , which Juvenal takes care to tell us had not been long in his possession , and he is grown im ...
... dreadful resource of men of desperate fortunes and desperate characters . In this he seems to have been successful : he has a chair , which Juvenal takes care to tell us had not been long in his possession , and he is grown im ...
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... dreadful picture of the state of corruption into which Rome was now fallen . VER . 49. Whom Massa dreads , ] He speaks of Babius Massa , who took up the trade of an informer under Domitian , and rose to great eminence in guilt . Tacitus ...
... dreadful picture of the state of corruption into which Rome was now fallen . VER . 49. Whom Massa dreads , ] He speaks of Babius Massa , who took up the trade of an informer under Domitian , and rose to great eminence in guilt . Tacitus ...
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Page 326 - 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.
Page 394 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 423 - If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry...
Page 20 - As this is the first passage, in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the relative situation of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome.
Page 230 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Page 229 - I, that spend half my nights and all my days Here, in a cell, to get a dark, pale face, To come forth worth the ivy or the bays, And in this age can hope no other grace Leave me ! There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung, high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.
Page 18 - tis so concluded on. Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, — Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd, — They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Page xii - Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. 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.
Page 207 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page xi - As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little regarded in the family, of which I sunk by degrees into the common drudge : this did not much disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled.