Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, Volumen2

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A. Millar, 1755

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Página 247 - He travelled through a great part of Sicily on foot ; clambered over the mountains and crept into the caverns to investigate its natural history, and discover the causes of its volcanoes ; and I have known him sit for hours in forgeries and founderies to inspect their successive operations.
Página 304 - Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with 'em, " Brutus " will start a spirit as soon as " Caesar." [Shout. Now, in the name of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great...
Página 167 - Unde simul primum me dimisere Philippi Decisis humilem pennis, inopemque paterni Et laris et fundi, paupertas impulit audax, Ut versus facerem : sed, quod non desit, habentem Quae poterunt unquam satis expurgare cicutae, Ni melius dormire putem, quam scribere versus?
Página 247 - Bishop of C'loyne, in Ireland. An inclination to carry me out on that expedition as one of the young professors, on his new foundation, having brought us often together, I scarce remember to have conversed with him on that art, liberal or mechanic, of which he knew not more than ordinary practitioners.
Página 248 - I have known him sit for hours in forgeries and founderies, to inspect their successive operations. I enter not into his peculiarities, either religious or personal, but admire the extensive genius of the man, and think it a loss to the western world, that his noble and exalted plan of an American university was not carried into execution.
Página 249 - Si dixit dives ; ^ lacus et mare fentit amorem Feftinantis heri : cui fi * vitiofa libido Fecerit aufpicium ; eras ferramenta Teanum Tolletis, fabri.
Página 10 - Rhodians by reiterated aEls of perfidy. — The iron grate fell down, crufhed thofe under it to death, and catched the reft as in a trap. — When the Xanthians heard the military fhout, and faw the flame mount, they concluded there would be no mercy. It was now about fun-fet, and they had been at hot work fince noon. He has often words or phrafes with which our language has hitherto had no knowledge. — One was a heart-friend to the...
Página 234 - Fortunate fenex ! hie inter flumina nota, Et fontes facros, frigus captabis opacum. Hinc tibi, quae femper vicino ab limite fepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depafta falifti, 55 Saepe levi fomnum fuadebit inire fufurro. Hine alta fub rupe canet frondator ad auras.
Página 317 - But it is ftrange, the Lady's Behaviour all this while was fo nicely tempered, and {he had fuch Command not only of her Words but Looks, that it was...

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