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The Works of William Hay ... - Page 157
by William Hay - 1794
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Select Epigrams of Martial

Martial, Abraham Cowley - Epigrams, Latin - 1755 - 280 pages
...ftream. What will not Nature yield to human /kill ? When fteril winter fliall be autumn ftill. Ep. LXIX. THE ancients all your veneration have : You like no...captain made : It is a change of title, not of trade. Îf. LXXV. Том about One was from the tavern come : And with his load through Fleet-ftreet reeling...
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Select epigrams, tr. and imitated by W. Hay

Marcus Valerius Martialis - 1755 - 282 pages
...Nature yield to human ikilli When fteril winter ihall be autumn Hill. • . -: -» ,' v : ' ' Ep. LXIX. THE ancients all your veneration have : You like no poet on this fide the grave. •. Vet, pray, excufe me ; if to pleafe you, Г Can hardly think it worth my while to die. ; Ep. LXXIV....
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Select epigrams, Volume 1

Select epigrams - Epigrams - 1797 - 188 pages
...dinner, as a trifling caufe on this you look, 11 me a better caufe to beat a cook. LIB. 8. EP. LXIX. THE ancients all your veneration have ; You like no...you, I Can hardly think it worth my while to die. LIB. 8. EP. LXXIV. A DOCTOR lately was a Captain made : It is a change of title, not of trade. I-IB....
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The Port Folio, Volume 2

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...my disaster : That, had site my mistress remained, I could not have called myself master. EPIGRAM. A DOCTOR lately was a captain made. It is a change of title, not of trade. During Lord Malmesbury's negotiations at Lisle, there was published, in a Manchester paper, an advertisement...
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The epigrams of Martial, tr. into Engl. prose. Each accompanied by one or ...

Martial - 1860 - 684 pages
...dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerrn, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise. The ancients all your veneration have : You like no poet on this side the grave. Yet, pray, excuse me ; if to please you, I Can hardly think it worth my while to die....
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Epigrams, Ancient and Modern: Humorous, Witty, Satirical, Moral and Panegyrical

John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...man and wife as bad as bad can be, I wonder they no better should agree. Hay. 35 (B. viii. ep. 74.) A Doctor lately was a Captain made. It is a change of title, not of trade. . Hay. 36 (B. ix. ep. 5.) You'd marry the marquis, fair lady, they say : You 're right ; we Ve suspected...
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Epigrams, ancient and modern, ed. by J. Booth

Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...man and wife as bad as bad can be, I wonder they no better should agree. Hay. 35 (B. viii. ep. 74.) A Doctor lately was a Captain made. It is a change of title, not of trade. 36 (B. ix. ep. 5.) You'd marry the marquis, fair lady, they say : You 're right ; we Ve suspected it...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. G. Colman Jan. Lodgings far Single Gentlemen. A doctor lately was a captain made : It is a change of title, not of trade. Martial (Hay), VIn. 74. DOGS. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels,...
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The epigrammatists: a selection, with notes and an intr. by H. P. Dodd

Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...distich must be Martial's epigram " To Vacerra " (Book VIII. G9), which is thus translated by Hay : The ancients all your veneration have : You like no poet on this side the grave. Yet , pray, excuse me ; if to please you, I Can hardly think it worth my while to die....
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ...

Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...distich must be Martial's epigram " To Vacerra " (Book VIII. 69), which is thus translated by Hay : The ancients all your veneration have : You like no poet on this side the grave. Yet, pray, excuse me ; if to please you, I Can hardly think it worth my while to die....
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