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... Relation ( E ) . Tho ' he was handsome , he was very Chafte : he was fober , meek as a Lamb , and as modest as a young Virgin ; fo true it is , that we must not judge of the Manners of an Au- thor by his Writings ; for the Satires of ...
... Relation ( E ) . Tho ' he was handsome , he was very Chafte : he was fober , meek as a Lamb , and as modest as a young Virgin ; fo true it is , that we must not judge of the Manners of an Au- thor by his Writings ; for the Satires of ...
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... Relation , Mother - in - law to his beft Friend , and famous for having died in a moft heroic Manner , according to the Opinions of that Sect in which our Poet was brought up . The Friendship of Perfius and Thrafeas , Son - in - law of ...
... Relation , Mother - in - law to his beft Friend , and famous for having died in a moft heroic Manner , according to the Opinions of that Sect in which our Poet was brought up . The Friendship of Perfius and Thrafeas , Son - in - law of ...
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... Relation . ] The Author who furnishes me with thefe Words , Viz . the Author of the Epiftle prefixed to the Tranflation of Perfius and Juvenal , by Father Tarteron ; obliges me alfo with a Commen- tary upon them . You are furprized at ...
... Relation . ] The Author who furnishes me with thefe Words , Viz . the Author of the Epiftle prefixed to the Tranflation of Perfius and Juvenal , by Father Tarteron ; obliges me alfo with a Commen- tary upon them . You are furprized at ...
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... Relation to Nero . He gives no other Example of the Liberty that Poet took to criticise him , than those Verses concerning Mida rex , which Cornutus made him correct . There is then only one Witness of the Torva Mimalloneis , viz . the ...
... Relation to Nero . He gives no other Example of the Liberty that Poet took to criticise him , than those Verses concerning Mida rex , which Cornutus made him correct . There is then only one Witness of the Torva Mimalloneis , viz . the ...
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... relation to the Life of the Tyrant . But we fee that he twists his Words , and has Recourse to Allufions and ænigmatical Figures , even when he intends to infinuate only a moral Maxim , the cleareft Explication whereof could not have ...
... relation to the Life of the Tyrant . But we fee that he twists his Words , and has Recourse to Allufions and ænigmatical Figures , even when he intends to infinuate only a moral Maxim , the cleareft Explication whereof could not have ...
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Page 36 - ... belle' hoc excute totum: quid non intus habet? non hie est Ilias Atti 50 ebria veratro? non siqua elegidia crudi dictarunt proceres? non quidquid denique lectis scribitur in citreis? calidum scis ponere sumen, scis comitem horridulum trita donare lacerna, et 'verum' inquis 'amo, verum mihi dicite de me.
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