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... Pompey , and the cause of Rome against Cæfar , could never have stooped fo vilely low , as to celebrate a tyrant and a monfter in fuch an open manner . I know fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ...
... Pompey , and the cause of Rome against Cæfar , could never have stooped fo vilely low , as to celebrate a tyrant and a monfter in fuch an open manner . I know fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ...
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... Pompey , once the darling of Rome . Thou shalt , like a true Roman , weep over the " crime of the young tyrant Ptolemy ; and fhalt raife to Pompey , by the power of thy eloquence , a higher monument than the Egyptian pyramids . " The ...
... Pompey , once the darling of Rome . Thou shalt , like a true Roman , weep over the " crime of the young tyrant Ptolemy ; and fhalt raife to Pompey , by the power of thy eloquence , a higher monument than the Egyptian pyramids . " The ...
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... Pompey's ; and these last are particularly named , to express how many nations efpoufed the fide of Pompey . Those reckoned up in Gaul were only the places where Cæfar's troops had been quartered , and Lucan might with as great ...
... Pompey's ; and these last are particularly named , to express how many nations efpoufed the fide of Pompey . Those reckoned up in Gaul were only the places where Cæfar's troops had been quartered , and Lucan might with as great ...
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... Pompey and Cæfar , introduced in the First Book ; and how beautifully , and with what a masterly art , are they ... Pompey's dream , Cæfar's breaking open the temple of Saturn , the fiege of Marfeilles , the fea - fight , and the facred ...
... Pompey and Cæfar , introduced in the First Book ; and how beautifully , and with what a masterly art , are they ... Pompey's dream , Cæfar's breaking open the temple of Saturn , the fiege of Marfeilles , the fea - fight , and the facred ...
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... Pompey and Cornelia , in the end of the Book . It has fome- thing in it as moving and tender , as ever was felt , or perhaps imagined . In the defcription of the witch Erictho , in the Sixth Book , we have a beautiful picture of horror ...
... Pompey and Cornelia , in the end of the Book . It has fome- thing in it as moving and tender , as ever was felt , or perhaps imagined . In the defcription of the witch Erictho , in the Sixth Book , we have a beautiful picture of horror ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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