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... age presented him with his freedom , and introduced him into the very best society . It was through this kind conduct of his master , that the future poet became acquainted with Scipio and Lælius . * On 4 COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF.
... age presented him with his freedom , and introduced him into the very best society . It was through this kind conduct of his master , that the future poet became acquainted with Scipio and Lælius . * On 4 COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF.
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... kind - hearted old man . Micio and Demea are an admirably contrasted pair of brothers . Chremes and Simo , in the Andrian , are naturally drawn and consistently supported . The long narrative of the latter , in the opening scene , is ...
... kind - hearted old man . Micio and Demea are an admirably contrasted pair of brothers . Chremes and Simo , in the Andrian , are naturally drawn and consistently supported . The long narrative of the latter , in the opening scene , is ...
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... kind is the following speech of Hegio , in the Capteivi , Actus 1. Scena 2. v . 56 .: — Multis et multigeneribus opus est tibi Militibus . primum dum opus est Pistoriensibus . Opus Paniceis , opus Placentinis quoque , Opus Turdetanis ...
... kind is the following speech of Hegio , in the Capteivi , Actus 1. Scena 2. v . 56 .: — Multis et multigeneribus opus est tibi Militibus . primum dum opus est Pistoriensibus . Opus Paniceis , opus Placentinis quoque , Opus Turdetanis ...
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... kind to heart , ' tis not enough to give ; Methinks , I could deal kingdoms to my friends , And ne'er be weary . - Alcibiades , Thou art a soldier , therefore seldom rich , It comes in charity to thee : for all thy living Is ' mongst ...
... kind to heart , ' tis not enough to give ; Methinks , I could deal kingdoms to my friends , And ne'er be weary . - Alcibiades , Thou art a soldier , therefore seldom rich , It comes in charity to thee : for all thy living Is ' mongst ...
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... kind- ness misplaced , that Alcibiades now entrusted him with the command of the fleet in his absence . Antiochus was left with positive orders not to fight ; but he could not resist the apparent oppor- tunity of distinguishing himself ...
... kind- ness misplaced , that Alcibiades now entrusted him with the command of the fleet in his absence . Antiochus was left with positive orders not to fight ; but he could not resist the apparent oppor- tunity of distinguishing himself ...
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Page 99 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 68 - Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair, Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant. Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Page 421 - And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Page 77 - Come not to me again : but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Who once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Page 72 - 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 20 - Hé ! de quoi est-ce qu'on parle là ? de celui qui m'a dérobé? Quel bruit fait-on là-haut ? est-ce mon voleur qui y est ? De grâce si l'on sait des nouvelles de mon voleur, je supplie que l'on m'en dise.
Page 394 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 403 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 99 - Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
Page 125 - Defendente vicem modo rhetoris atque poetae, Interdum urbani parcentis viribus atque Extenuantis eas consulto. Ridiculum acri Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.