The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, 第 1 卷

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J. Johnson, 1795 - 438 頁

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第 131 頁 - At fixteen years, , When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought Beyond the mark of others : our then dictator, Whom with all praife I point at, faw him fight. When with his Amazonian chin he drove The briftled lips before him ; he
第 254 頁 - Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.— Good den, Sir Richard—God-a-mercy, fellow — And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names, Tis too refpe&ive, and too fociable For your
第 155 頁 - 560. • The pleiads, hyads, with the northern team, And great Orion's more refulgent beam, To which, around the axle of the Iky, The bear revolving, points his golden eye, Still
第 241 頁 - in pledge a confiderable quantity of plate, but was obliged to procure a nobleman to join with him as furety in a deed, binding himfelf under a great forfeiture to reftore it.
第 302 頁 - he is fupported by a quick fenfe of honour and virtue in the minds of the people, by a decent reverence for the public opinion, and by a train of ufeful prejudices, combating on the fide of national manners. In a period when
第 52 頁 - Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the ruft we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote,
第 30 頁 - and in a moment quit The debt immenfe of endlefs gratitude, So burdenfome, ftill paying ftill to owe; Forgetful what from him I ftill receiv'd, And underftood not that a grateful mind By owing, owes not, but ftill pays, at once Indebted and difcharged.
第 75 頁 - Therfites only clamour'd in the throng, Loquacious, loud, and turbulent of tongue; Aw'd by no fhame, by no refpecl; controul'd, In fcandal bufy, in reproaches bold, With witty malice ftudious to defame, Scorn all his joy, and laughter all his aim.
第 131 頁 - His fword death's ftamp Where it did mark it took, from face to foot He was a thing of blood,

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