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... satirical , monumental , and other sections . " Select Epigrams , " 1797 , is chronological , with anonymous epigrams at the end . These collections have a sprinkling of translations from the Greek , but they all accept the Roman type ...
... satirical , monumental , and other sections . " Select Epigrams , " 1797 , is chronological , with anonymous epigrams at the end . These collections have a sprinkling of translations from the Greek , but they all accept the Roman type ...
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... satire ; the conversationalist at the dinner- table to display his wit ; and the correspondent in his Letters to enliven his subject . Short , it is easily retained in the memory ; pithy , it contains in the compass of a few lines the ...
... satire ; the conversationalist at the dinner- table to display his wit ; and the correspondent in his Letters to enliven his subject . Short , it is easily retained in the memory ; pithy , it contains in the compass of a few lines the ...
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... satirical upon women ( Jacobs III . 115 , vi . , translated by Merivale ) : All wives are bad - yet two blest hours they ... satire were necessary to the satiated palates of the emperors , who set the fashion to their subjects , and thus ...
... satirical upon women ( Jacobs III . 115 , vi . , translated by Merivale ) : All wives are bad - yet two blest hours they ... satire were necessary to the satiated palates of the emperors , who set the fashion to their subjects , and thus ...
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... satire those who offended him , satisfied his aspirations ; and thus his talents , which were undoubtedly great , were employed for the most unworthy objects , and lost to all noble uses . The pointed and satirical form of Martial's ...
... satire those who offended him , satisfied his aspirations ; and thus his talents , which were undoubtedly great , were employed for the most unworthy objects , and lost to all noble uses . The pointed and satirical form of Martial's ...
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... satire , the puerile imbe- cility , the unchaste wit , and the stinging point of the Roman school . The character of the epigram has been so lowered , that some of our critics have not hesitated to speak of it as unworthy of a place in ...
... satire , the puerile imbe- cility , the unchaste wit , and the stinging point of the Roman school . The character of the epigram has been so lowered , that some of our critics have not hesitated to speak of it as unworthy of a place in ...
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Page 127 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture, and mean array.
Page 217 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Page xxxvi - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Page 142 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Page 305 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 460 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.
Page 57 - When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 519 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Page 137 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 20 - Ay me! I fondly dream! Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?