A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Explanatory Notes in which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, 1. köideN. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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... satire with giving some humourous reasons for his writing : such as hearing , so often , many ill poets rehearse their works , and intending to repay them in kind . Next he in- forms us , why he addicts himself to satire , rather than ...
... satire with giving some humourous reasons for his writing : such as hearing , so often , many ill poets rehearse their works , and intending to repay them in kind . Next he in- forms us , why he addicts himself to satire , rather than ...
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... SATIRE I. vices and follies of his time . He laments the restraints which the satirists then lay under from a fear of punishment , and professes to treat of the dead , personating , under their names , certain living vicious characters ...
... SATIRE I. vices and follies of his time . He laments the restraints which the satirists then lay under from a fear of punishment , and professes to treat of the dead , personating , under their names , certain living vicious characters ...
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... ear ; and this , on subjects which had been treated by men of a superior cast . 15. Therefore . ] i . e . In order to qualify myself as a writer and + Of the stolen fleece : how great wild - JUVENALIS SATIRE . SAT . I.
... ear ; and this , on subjects which had been treated by men of a superior cast . 15. Therefore . ] i . e . In order to qualify myself as a writer and + Of the stolen fleece : how great wild - JUVENALIS SATIRE . SAT . I.
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... were to contend for a prize . Those , whose performances were not approved , were to wipe them out with a spunge , or to lick them out with their 35 What remains : whom Massa fears : whom with 10 SAT . I. JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... were to contend for a prize . Those , whose performances were not approved , were to wipe them out with a spunge , or to lick them out with their 35 What remains : whom Massa fears : whom with 10 SAT . I. JUVENALIS SATIRE .
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... DRYDEN . PLIN . lib . xi . c . 37 . The epithet molles may , perhaps , intimate , that this custom was looked upon at Rome ( as among us ) as a mark of effeminacy . Or Together with us : " Give to the Prætor - 22 SAT . I. JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... DRYDEN . PLIN . lib . xi . c . 37 . The epithet molles may , perhaps , intimate , that this custom was looked upon at Rome ( as among us ) as a mark of effeminacy . Or Together with us : " Give to the Prætor - 22 SAT . I. JUVENALIS SATIRE .
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Page 347 - 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 218 - O demens, ita servus homo est? nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
Page 234 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
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Page 148 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Page vi - 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.
Page 220 - Is there any woman that blushes at divorce now that certain illustrious and noble ladies reckon their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands...
Page 218 - Pone crucem servo: meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium ? quis testis adest ? quis detulit ? audi : Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.
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Page 50 - Thus and no farther shall my passion stray ; " The first crime past, compels us on to more, " And guilt proves fate, which was but choice before.