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... verses in public . It also signifies a scaffold , or raised place , on which the actors ex- hibited plays . The pretor is here called lautus - sumptuous , noble , splendid , from the fine garments which he wore on those occasions , as ...
... verses in public . It also signifies a scaffold , or raised place , on which the actors ex- hibited plays . The pretor is here called lautus - sumptuous , noble , splendid , from the fine garments which he wore on those occasions , as ...
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... verses deliver , As worthy credit ) only slays men : nothing beyond , 115 Or more grievous , does the victim fear , than a knife . But what ca- lamity Impelled these ? what so great hunger , and arms hostile 120 To a rampart , have ...
... verses deliver , As worthy credit ) only slays men : nothing beyond , 115 Or more grievous , does the victim fear , than a knife . But what ca- lamity Impelled these ? what so great hunger , and arms hostile 120 To a rampart , have ...
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... verses . See sat . i . 1. 124 , and note . 5. Those , whose images , & c ] The poet feigns himself to be an untutored rustic , and to write merely fron his own rude genius , without those assistances which others have derived from the ...
... verses . See sat . i . 1. 124 , and note . 5. Those , whose images , & c ] The poet feigns himself to be an untutored rustic , and to write merely fron his own rude genius , without those assistances which others have derived from the ...
Page 244
... verses , by their poverty and necessity , without any natural genius or talents whatsoever . 12. If the hope , & c . ] These poor poets , who are without all na- tural genius , and would therefore never think of writing ; yet , such ...
... verses , by their poverty and necessity , without any natural genius or talents whatsoever . 12. If the hope , & c . ] These poor poets , who are without all na- tural genius , and would therefore never think of writing ; yet , such ...
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... verse and prose , and shews what sad stuff the nobles wrote themselves , and encouraged in others . He laments that he dares not speak out , as Lucilius and Horace did - but it is no very difficult matter to perceive that he frequently ...
... verse and prose , and shews what sad stuff the nobles wrote themselves , and encouraged in others . He laments that he dares not speak out , as Lucilius and Horace did - but it is no very difficult matter to perceive that he frequently ...
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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.
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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.