The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes1806 |
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Pàgina xliii
... Romans ; which he prefixed to his translation of Juvenal . What Dryden knew , he told in a manner that renders every attempt to recount it after him , equally hopeless and vain ; but his acquaintance with works of literature was not ...
... Romans ; which he prefixed to his translation of Juvenal . What Dryden knew , he told in a manner that renders every attempt to recount it after him , equally hopeless and vain ; but his acquaintance with works of literature was not ...
Pàgina xliv
... Romans , like those of every other people , were pious effusions for favours received or expected from the gods : Of these , the earliest , according to Varro , were the hymns to Mars , which , though used by the Salii in the Augustan ...
... Romans , like those of every other people , were pious effusions for favours received or expected from the gods : Of these , the earliest , according to Varro , were the hymns to Mars , which , though used by the Salii in the Augustan ...
Pàgina xlv
... Romans ; until , about a century afterwards , and during the ravages of a dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the historians say , in order to pro- pitiate the gods , called in a troop of players from Tuscany , to assist at the ...
... Romans ; until , about a century afterwards , and during the ravages of a dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the historians say , in order to pro- pitiate the gods , called in a troop of players from Tuscany , to assist at the ...
Pàgina xlvii
... Romans the invention + It should be observed , however , that the idea was obvious , and the work itself highly necessary . The old Satire , amidst much coarse ribaldry , frequently attacked the follies and vices of the day . This could ...
... Romans the invention + It should be observed , however , that the idea was obvious , and the work itself highly necessary . The old Satire , amidst much coarse ribaldry , frequently attacked the follies and vices of the day . This could ...
Pàgina xlviii
... Romans can have no pretensions to the honour they claim . And even if these be granted , the honour appears to be scarcely worth the claiming ; for the Greeks had not only dramatick , but lyrick and heroick satire . To pass by the ...
... Romans can have no pretensions to the honour they claim . And even if these be granted , the honour appears to be scarcely worth the claiming ; for the Greeks had not only dramatick , but lyrick and heroick satire . To pass by the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 449 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Pàgina 324 - 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: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
Pàgina 390 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Pàgina 305 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Pàgina lxx - The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original.
Pàgina xv - In this humble and obscure state, poor beyond the common lot, yet flattering my ambition with day-dreams which, perhaps, would never have been realized, I was found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which I have already mentioned, and which had passed from mouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had by some accident or other reached his ear, and given him a curiosity to inquire after the...
Pàgina 326 - Skill'd to reverse whate'er the gods create, And make that crooked which they fashion straight : Hard choice for man, to die — or else to be That tottering, wretched, wrinkled thing you see. Age, then, we all prefer ; for age we pray, And travel on to life's last lingering day ; Then sinking slowly down from worse to worse, Find heaven's extorted boon our greatest curse.
Pàgina xii - I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodging-house. 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.
Pàgina xiii - Sec. 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 recourse to it, when I wanted money for my mathematical pursuits.
Pàgina xlvii - Eupolis atque Cratinus Aristophanesque poetae, Atque alii, quorum comoedia prisca virorum est, Si quis erat dignus describi, quod malus ac fur, Quod moechus foret aut sicarius aut alioqui Famosus, multa cum libertate notabant.