The Satires of Decimus Junius JuvenalisW. Bulmer, 1806 - 473 strán (strany) |
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Strana xxxiii
... crimes this unnamed satirist persecuted with a severity as unmiti- gated as it was just . Quintilian had no political courage . Either from a sense of kindness or fear , he flatters Domitian almost as grossly as Martial : -but his life ...
... crimes this unnamed satirist persecuted with a severity as unmiti- gated as it was just . Quintilian had no political courage . Either from a sense of kindness or fear , he flatters Domitian almost as grossly as Martial : -but his life ...
Strana xxxv
... crime was an allusion to the influ . ence of a favourite player ! -Indeed , the informers of Hadrian's reign must have had more sagacious noses than those of Domitian's , to smell out his fault . What Statius , in his time , was ...
... crime was an allusion to the influ . ence of a favourite player ! -Indeed , the informers of Hadrian's reign must have had more sagacious noses than those of Domitian's , to smell out his fault . What Statius , in his time , was ...
Strana xxxviii
... crimes of Marius : they might be , and probably were , committed long before his condemnation ; but under Do- mitian , it was scarcely safe to attempt bringing such gigantick peculators to justice . Add to this , that the other culprits ...
... crimes of Marius : they might be , and probably were , committed long before his condemnation ; but under Do- mitian , it was scarcely safe to attempt bringing such gigantick peculators to justice . Add to this , that the other culprits ...
Strana lii
... crimes form the subject of many a melancholy page in the ensuing work , and need not therefore be dwelt on here . Under him , every trace of ancient man- ners was obliterated ; liberty was unknown , law openly trampled upon , and ...
... crimes form the subject of many a melancholy page in the ensuing work , and need not therefore be dwelt on here . Under him , every trace of ancient man- ners was obliterated ; liberty was unknown , law openly trampled upon , and ...
Strana 12
... crimes of treachery and ingrati- tude , ( for such is the charge , ) could only be believed on the credit of concurring testimonies ; and gives us a dreadful picture of the state of corruption into which Rome was now fallen . VER . 49 ...
... crimes of treachery and ingrati- tude , ( for such is the charge , ) could only be believed on the credit of concurring testimonies ; and gives us a dreadful picture of the state of corruption into which Rome was now fallen . VER . 49 ...
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Strana 195 - 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.
Strana 316 - 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.
Strana 384 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Strana 443 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Strana 218 - 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.
Strana 12 - 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.
Strana x - 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.
Strana 10 - 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...
Strana xi - ... with favours more substantial : little collections were now and then made, and I have received sixpence in an evening. To one who had long lived in the absolute want of money, such a resource seemed a Peruvian mine : I furnished myself by degrees with paper, &c. and what was of more importance, with books of geometry, and of the higher branches of algebra, which I cautiously concealed. Poetry, even at this time, was no amusement of mine : it was subservient to other purposes ; and I only had...
Strana 51 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.