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So we must offset Martial's and Juvenal's pictures of the calm and gracious life in the country: virtuous life, often, with quiet striving after usefulness and the higher things. He reveals to us, in the last quarter of the century, interiors in northern Italy, by Lake Como; you should have found the like anywhere in the empire.
The apostle traces back the horrible depravity of the heathen world, which he depicts with a pen as sharp as that of Juvenal, but with none of Juvenal's bitterness and vitriolic sarcasm, to a distorted and false conception of the being and attributes of God.
The exaggeration of Juvenal's style if employed in a different way might have led us to suspect him of less honesty of purpose than he really has. As it is, the very violence of his prejudices betrays an earnestness which, if his views had been more elevated, we might have thought feigned.
But the distance is immeasurable between Juvenal's scorching truculence and Diderot's half-ironical, half-serious sufferance. Juvenal knows that Trebius is a base and abject being; he tells him what he is; and in the process blasts him.
After his death there was a decline in satire until fifty years later, when Horace and Juvenal gave it a new impetus, although their style was different from that of Lucilius. Doctor Johnson was such an admirer of the two finest of Juvenal's satires that he took pains to imitate them.
Purcell, I have only to remark, that if you are desirous of making a jest of the court, you had better be cautious, I say, sir; and here the judge waxed exceeding wroth. 'I say the line is Latin Latin, sir, Juvenal's Latin, sir every schoolboy knows it. "'Of course, my lord, said Peter, with great humility, 'I bow myself to the decision of your lordship; the line is, therefore, Latin.
Orontes to borrow Juvenal's phrase was already flowing into Tiber, and the sterner virtues of the conquerors were growing hourly more distasteful beside the variety, the geniality, the passionate flush and impulse of the conquered. It was their common sense of this danger which drew together Vergil and the Emperor.
Purcell, I have only to remark, that if you are desirous of making a jest of the court, you had better be cautious, I say, sir; and here the judge waxed exceeding wroth. 'I say the line is Latin Latin, sir, Juvenal's Latin, sir every schoolboy knows it. "'Of course, my lord, said Peter, with great humility, 'I bow myself to the decision of your lordship; the line is, therefore, Latin.
The feebleness of the style, and certain differences from the diction usual with the author, are not sufficient to found an argument upon, and have besides been much exaggerated. They would apply equally, and even with greater force, to the fifteenth. The words "ad mediam fere aetatem declamavit," as Martha has justly remarked, form the key to Juvenal's literary position.
Indeed, with all his invective he keeps strictly to truth; his painting of the emperors is from the life. It is highly coloured, but not out of drawing. Juvenal's Domitian is nearer to history than Tacitus's Tiberius. It is in his delineations of society that Juvenal is at his greatest.
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