 A faltering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless gums to mumble o'er its fare. Poor wretch! behold him, tottering to his fall, So loathsome to himself, wife, children, all, That those who hoped the legacy...  The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, - Side 120av Juvenal - 1836 - 208 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 sider
...nigh his end, as he that most doth playne." While age presents one universal face — A faultering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless giMns to rnump his wretched fare. He grows, poor wretch, (now, in the dregs of life,) So loathsome... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 578 sider
...feeble body, And such a flabby cheek, as an old ape, In Tabraca's thick woods, might haply scrape. Strength, beauty, and a thousand charms beside, With...divide ; While age presents one universal face: A faultering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless... | |
 | Juvenal, Sulpicia - 1852 - 610 sider
...o'ergrown, 285 And such a cheek, as many a grandam ape, In Tabraca's thick woods, is seen to scrape. Strength, beauty, and a thousand charms beside, With...youth divide ; While age presents one universal face : 290 A faultering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless... | |
 | Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1852 - 596 sider
...sweet distinction, youth from youth divide ; While age presents one universal face : 290 A faultering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless gums to mumble o'er its fare. Poor wretch ! behold him, tottering to his fall, So loathsome to himself, wife,... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 sider
...scurf o'ergrown, And such a cheek as many a grand-dam ape, In Tabraca's thick woods is seen to scrape. Strength, beauty, and a thousand charms beside, With...divide ; While age presents one universal face : A faultering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bdre, And toothless... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 888 sider
...With sweet distinction, youth from youth divide ; While age presents one universal face : A faultering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless gums to mumble o'er its fare. Poor wretch ! behold him tottering to his fall, So loathsome to himself, wife,... | |
 | Juvenal, Sulpicia - 1876 - 588 sider
...o'ergrown, 285 And such a cheek, as many a grandam ape, In Tabraca's thick woods, is seen to scrape. Strength, beauty, and a thousand charms beside, With...youth divide ; While age presents one universal face : 290 A faltering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless... | |
 | 1881 - 590 sider
...beside, With sweet distinction, youth from youth divide ; While age presents one universal face : 290 A faltering voice, a weak and trembling pace, An ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless gums to mumble o'er its fare. Poor wretch, behold him, tottering to his fall, So loathsome to himself, wife,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1885 - 372 sider
...These ills certainly were never more powerfully portrayed than they are here portrayed by Juvenal : Strength, beauty, and a thousand charms beside, With...ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless gums to mumble o'er its fare. Poor wretch ! behold him, tottering to his fall, So loathsome to himself, wife,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1889 - 520 sider
...These ills certainly were never more powerfully portrayed than they are here portrayed by Juvenal : Strength, beauty, and a thousand charms beside, With...ever-dropping nose, a forehead bare, And toothless gums to mumble o'er its fare. Poor wretch ! behold him, tottering to his fall, So loathsome to himself, wife,... | |
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