Classical miscellany: Pamphlet vols.], Volume 31

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1887
 

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Page 16 - Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness, are there; And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame...
Page 16 - As false as dicers' oaths ; O ! such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words ; heaven's face doth glow, Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.
Page 14 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 16 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 19 - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Page 15 - Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleave* of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M.
Page 6 - ... quo tu turpissime?' magna 75 inclamat voce, et 'licet antestari?' ego vero oppono auriculam. rapit in ius: clamor utrimque: undique concursus. sic me servavit Apollo. 1.10 {Lucili, quam sis mendosus, teste Catone defensore tuo, pervincam, qui male factos emendare parat versus; hoc lenius ille, quo melior vir et est longe subtilior illo, qui multum puer et loris et funibus udis {5] exoratus, ut esset opem qui ferre poetis antiquis posset contra fastidia nostra, grammaticorum equitum doctissimus.
Page 5 - Cum Ciceronis librum de re publica prendit hinc philologus aliquis, hinc grammaticus, hinc philosophiae deditus, alius alio curam suam mittit: philosophus admiratur contra iustitiam dici tarn multa potuisse. cum ad hanc eandem lectionem philologus accessit, hoc subnotat: duos Romanos reges esse, quorum alter patrem non habet, alter matrem: nam de Servii matre dubitatur.

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