Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 133 pages of information about Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems.

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 133 pages of information about Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems.

{33c} Plautus.

{33d} Trinummus, Act 2, Scen. 4.

{34a} “It was the lodging of calamity.”—­Mart. lib. 1, ep. 85.

{41} ["Ficta omnia celeriter tanquam flosculi decidunt, nec simulatum potest quidquam esse diuturnum.”—­Cicero.]

{44a} Let a Punic sponge go with the book.—­Mart. 1. iv. epig. 10.

{47a} He had to be repressed.

{49a} A wit-stand.

{49b} Martial. lib. xi. epig. 91.  That fall over the rough ways and high rocks.

{59a} Sir Thomas More.  Sir Thomas Wiat.  Henry Earl of Surrey.  Sir Thomas Chaloner.  Sir Thomas Smith.  Sir Thomas Eliot.  Bishop Gardiner.  Sir Nicolas Bacon, L.K.  Sir Philip Sidney.  Master Richard Hooker.  Robert Earl of Essex.  Sir Walter Raleigh.  Sir Henry Savile.  Sir Edwin Sandys.  Sir Thomas Egerton, L.C.  Sir Francis Bacon, L.C.

{62a} “Which will secure a long age for the known writer.”—­Horat. de Art.  Poetica.

{66a} They have poison for their food, even for their dainty.

{74a} Haud infima ars in principe, ubi lenitas, ubi severitas—­plus polleat in commune bonum callere.

{74b} i.e., Machiavell.

{81a} “Censure pardons the crows and vexes the doves.”—­Juvenal.

{81b} “Does not spread his net for the hawk or the kite.”—­Plautus.

{93} Parrhasius.  Eupompus.  Socrates.  Parrhasius.  Clito.  Polygnotus.  Aglaophon.  Zeuxis.  Parrhasius.  Raphael de Urbino.  Mich.  Angelo Buonarotti.  Titian.  Antony de Correg.  Sebast. de Venet.  Julio Romano.  Andrea Sartorio.

{94} Plin. lib. 35. c. 2, 5, 6, and 7.  Vitruv. lib. 8 and 7.

{95} Horat. in “Arte Poet.”

{106a} Livy, Sallust, Sidney, Donne, Gower, Chaucer, Spenser, Virgil, Ennius, Homer, Quintilian, Plautus, Terence.

{110a} The interpreter of gods and men.

{111a} Julius Caesar.  Of words, see Hor.  “De Art.  Poet.;” Quintil. 1. 8, “Ludov.  Vives,” pp. 6 and 7.

{111b} A prudent man conveys nothing rashly.

{114a} That jolt as they fall over the rough places and the rocks.

{116a} Directness enlightens, obliquity and circumlocution darken.

{117a} Ocean trembles as if indignant that you quit the land.

{117b} You might believe that the uprooted Cyclades were floating in.

{118a} Those armies of the people of Rome that might break through the heavens.—­Caesar.  Comment. circa fin.

{124a} No one can speak rightly unless he apprehends wisely.

{133a} “Where the discussion of faults is general, no one is injured.”

{133b} “Gnaw tender little ears with biting truth—­Per Sat. 1.

{133c} “The wish for remedy is always truer than the hope.—­Livius.

{136a} “AEneas dedicates these arms concerning the conquering Greeks.”—­Virg.  AEn. lib. 3.

{136b} “You buy everything, Castor; the time will come when you will sell everything.”—­Martial, lib. 8, epig. 19.

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