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... aetas ? Ifte quidem veteres inter ponetur honeste , Qui vel menfe brevi , vel toto eft junior anno . Utor permiffo , caudaeque pilos ut equinae 45 Paullatim vello ; et demo unum , demo et item unum ; Dum cadat elufus ratione ruentis ...
... aetas ? Ifte quidem veteres inter ponetur honeste , Qui vel menfe brevi , vel toto eft junior anno . Utor permiffo , caudaeque pilos ut equinae 45 Paullatim vello ; et demo unum , demo et item unum ; Dum cadat elufus ratione ruentis ...
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... aetas , ita quemque facetus adopta . r Ep . VI . 55 • i . e . nicely and accurately adapt your address to the age and condition of each . I do not recollect any other place where facetus is used by Horace ; and in all these it feems ...
... aetas , ita quemque facetus adopta . r Ep . VI . 55 • i . e . nicely and accurately adapt your address to the age and condition of each . I do not recollect any other place where facetus is used by Horace ; and in all these it feems ...
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... enforce this propofal to the young man , who had his reasons for being against it , he adds , " odiofa haec eft aetas adolefcentulis : Emedio aequum excedere eft odiofa 198 ON THE PROVINCES OF "the observation, it had then, in another's ...
... enforce this propofal to the young man , who had his reasons for being against it , he adds , " odiofa haec eft aetas adolefcentulis : Emedio aequum excedere eft odiofa 198 ON THE PROVINCES OF "the observation, it had then, in another's ...
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Horace. odiofa haec eft aetas adolefcentulis : Emedio aequum excedere eft : poftremò nos jam fabula Sumus , Pamphile , fenex atque anus . There is nothing , I fuppofe , in these words , which provokes a fmile . Yet the humour is strong ...
Horace. odiofa haec eft aetas adolefcentulis : Emedio aequum excedere eft : poftremò nos jam fabula Sumus , Pamphile , fenex atque anus . There is nothing , I fuppofe , in these words , which provokes a fmile . Yet the humour is strong ...
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Page 155 - But Italy, reviving from the trance Of Vandal, Goth, and Monkish ignorance, With pauses, cadence, and well-vowell'd words, And all the graces a good ear affords, Made rhyme an art, and Dante's polish'd page Restored a silver, not a golden age.
Page 135 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
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