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Pagina xxvii
... Suetonius ; but which is probably posterior to his time ; as it bears very few marks of being written by a contemporary author : it is , however , the earliest extant . The old criticks , struck with its deficiencies , have attempted to ...
... Suetonius ; but which is probably posterior to his time ; as it bears very few marks of being written by a contemporary author : it is , however , the earliest extant . The old criticks , struck with its deficiencies , have attempted to ...
Pagina xxxii
... Suetonius to his own ideas : which seem also to have been those of a much higher name , Salmasius ; and , while I am now writing , to be sanctioned by the adoption of the learned Ruperti . I never affected singularity ; yet I find ...
... Suetonius to his own ideas : which seem also to have been those of a much higher name , Salmasius ; and , while I am now writing , to be sanctioned by the adoption of the learned Ruperti . I never affected singularity ; yet I find ...
Pagina 47
... Suetonius ' account of the institution : Celebrabat et in Albano quotannis Quinquatria Minerva , cui collegium instituerat ; ex quo sorte ducti magiste- rio fungerentur , ederentque eximias renationes et scenicos ludos , superque ...
... Suetonius ' account of the institution : Celebrabat et in Albano quotannis Quinquatria Minerva , cui collegium instituerat ; ex quo sorte ducti magiste- rio fungerentur , ederentque eximias renationes et scenicos ludos , superque ...
Pagina 72
... Suetonius as exhibiting them by the Emperour's " special indulgence . " We may now account for the indignation with which the poet speaks of these arrogant upstarts , who puffed up by the success of their sordid contracts , pre- sumed ...
... Suetonius as exhibiting them by the Emperour's " special indulgence . " We may now account for the indignation with which the poet speaks of these arrogant upstarts , who puffed up by the success of their sordid contracts , pre- sumed ...
Pagina 90
... Suetonius and Dio tell us , among a variety of other instances , that Nero enclosed his in a golden pix adorned with pearls , and offered it with great state to the Capitoline Jove , avednxe τω Διῖ τῷ Καπιτωλίνῳ . The day this was done ...
... Suetonius and Dio tell us , among a variety of other instances , that Nero enclosed his in a golden pix adorned with pearls , and offered it with great state to the Capitoline Jove , avednxe τω Διῖ τῷ Καπιτωλίνῳ . The day this was done ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.