 | 680 pages
...sportsman, and has taken three noble boars. What ! (methinks I hear you say with astonishment) Pliny ! Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved...you would have found me, not with my spear, but my pen by my side. I mused and wrote, being resolved if I returned with my hands empty, at least to come... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...three noble boars. .What ! (you will say, with astonishment) Pliny ( — Even he. However, I indulge, at the same time, my beloved inactivity ; and whilst...by my side. I mused and wrote, being resolved, if 1 returned with my bands empty, at least to come home with my memorandums full. Believe me, this manner... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 pages
...sportsman, and has taken three noble boars. What ! (methinks I hear you say with astonishment) Pliny ! Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved...you would have found me, not with my spear, but my pen by my side. I mused and wrote, being resolved if I returned with my hands empty, at least to come... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 632 pages
...and has taken three noble boars. What (mcthinks I hear yon say with astonishment)! Pliny! — even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved inactivity, and whilst I sat at my nets, yon wonld have fonnd me, not with my spear, but my pen by my side. I mused and wrote, being resolved... | |
 | Robert DEUCHAR - 1864 - 374 pages
...say with astonishment) Pliny ! Even he. However, I indulge, at the same time, my beloved activity, and whilst I sat at my nets, you would have found me, not with my spear, but my pen, by my side. I mused and wrote, being resolved if I returned with my hands empty, at least to come... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 pages
...acquaintance is turned sportsman, and has taken three noble boars. ' What!' you exclaim, ' Pliny!'—Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved...sat at my nets,* you would have found me, not with boar-spear or javelin, but pencil and tablet,f by my side. I mused and wrote, being determined to return,... | |
 | Maurice Pellisson - Rome - 1897 - 338 pages
...acquaintance is turned sportsman, and has taken three noble boars. "What!" you exclaim, "Pliny!" — Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved...I sat at my nets you would have found me, not with boar-spear or javelin, but pencil and tablet, by my side. I mused and wrote, being determined to return,... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pages
...is turned sportsman, and has taken three noble boars. ' What ! ' you exclaim, ' Pliny 1 ' — Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved...sat at my nets,* you would have found me, not with boar spear or javelin, but pencil and tablet,! by my side. I mused and wrote, being determined to return,... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...is turned sportsman, and has taken three noble boars. " What ! " you exclaim, " Pliny 1 " — Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved...sat at my nets, you would have found me, not with boar spear or javelin, but pencil and tablet, by my side. I mused and wrote, being determined to return,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 532 pages
...is turned sportsman, and has taken three noble boars. " What ! " you exclaim, " Pliny ! " — Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved...sat at my nets, you would have found me, not with boar spear or javelin, but pencil and tablet, by my side. I mused and wrote, being determined to return,... | |
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Pliny ! Even he. However, I indulged at the same time my beloved inactivity, and whilst I sat at my nets, you would have found me, not with my spear, but my pen by my side. 
