Lectures and Essays: 2d ser

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Clarendon Press, 1895 - 269 páginas
 

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Página 123 - Cui lecta potenter erit res , «> Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo.
Página 136 - In heart and mind; that curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of my mistress's heart, and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it. Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
Página 195 - Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil : and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
Página 196 - Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit ? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat ? The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Página 196 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat...
Página 25 - ... peragebant. Livius post aliquot annos, qui ab saturis ausus est primus argumento fabulam serere, (idem scilicet, id quod omnes tum erant, suorum carminum actor) dicitur...
Página 52 - Pacuvius docti famam senis, Accius alti, Dicitur Afrani toga convenisse Menandro, Plautus ad exemplar Siculi properare Epicharmi, Vincere Caecilius gravitate, Terentius arte.
Página 71 - Nee verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres, nee desilies imitator in artum, Unde pedem proferre pudor vetet aut operis lex. 135 Nec sic incipies, ut scriptor cyclicus olim : " Fortunam Priami cantabo et nobile bellum.
Página 62 - Omnia veniebant Antonio in mentem ; eaque suo quaeque loco, ubi plurimum proficere et valere possent, ut ab imperatore equites, pedites, levis armatura, sic ab illo in maxime opportunis orationis partibus collocabantur.
Página 85 - Nee vero quod in quoque optimum fuit, studio consecutus est tantum ; sed plurimas vel potius omnes ex se ipso virtutes extulit immortalis ingenii beatissima ubertas, Non enim pluvias, ut ait Pindarus, aquas colligit, sed vivo gurgite exundat, dono quodam providentiae genitus, in quo totas vires suas eloquentia experi110 retur.

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