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共 26 段- Now if it may be permitted me to go back again to the consid
- I have formerly said in this epistle, that I could distingui
- Quintilian says, in plain words, _Satira quidem tota nostra
- This we may believe for certain,--that as his subjects were
- The comparison betwixt Horace and Juvenal is more difficult;
- Thus far that learned critic, Barten Holyday,[39] whose inte
- The quickness of your imagination, my lord, has already prev
- "And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees
- Still shall I hear, and never quit the score,
- Grieved though I am an ancient friend to lose,
- In Saturn's reign, at Nature's early birth,
- The page is stript, and beaten out of doors;
- Look round the habitable world, how few
- What vast prerogatives, my Gallus, are
- Arithmetic and geometry were taught on floors, which were st
- Is this thy daily course? The glaring sun
- Yes, sure; for yesterday was once to-morrow.
- [262] Note VIII.
- You pass that artist, Sir, and all his powers,
- The continued civil wars had laid Italy almost waste; the gr
- [And, for the remark, we stand indebted to the curious penci
- It being almost morally impossible for you to be other than
- The Fifth, a lamentation for a dead friend, the first draugh
- Young Corydon, the unhappy shepherd swain,
- Daphnis, the guest of heaven, with wondering eyes,
- 'Tis what I have been conning in my mind;