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... 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 ; but it feems to ...
... 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 ; but it feems to ...
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... cause the subject is a known true ftory . Now with our late critics , Truth is an unneceffary trifle for an Epic Poem , and ought to be thrown afide as a curb to invention . To have every part a mere web of their own brain , is with ...
... cause the subject is a known true ftory . Now with our late critics , Truth is an unneceffary trifle for an Epic Poem , and ought to be thrown afide as a curb to invention . To have every part a mere web of their own brain , is with ...
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... causes his nurse to be " interred , and makes a funeral pile for his trufty " pilot Palinurus , for whom he sheds a thousand ❝ tears . Here is ( fays he ) a forry hero in paganism , " who would have made an admirable faint among " fome ...
... causes his nurse to be " interred , and makes a funeral pile for his trufty " pilot Palinurus , for whom he sheds a thousand ❝ tears . Here is ( fays he ) a forry hero in paganism , " who would have made an admirable faint among " fome ...
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... cause assigned for it , and the latter is raised by a god , at the inftigation of a goddefą , that was both wife and fifter of Jupiter . In the Pharfalia , most of the transactions and events , that compofe the relation , are wonderful ...
... cause assigned for it , and the latter is raised by a god , at the inftigation of a goddefą , that was both wife and fifter of Jupiter . In the Pharfalia , most of the transactions and events , that compofe the relation , are wonderful ...
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... cause accurft produc'd the dire event , Why rage fo dire the madding nations rent , And peace was driven away by one confent . But thus the malice of our fate commands , And nothing great to long duration stands ; Afpiring Rome had ...
... cause accurft produc'd the dire event , Why rage fo dire the madding nations rent , And peace was driven away by one confent . But thus the malice of our fate commands , And nothing great to long duration stands ; Afpiring Rome had ...
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Æneid againſt amidſt arms Behold beneath blood bold breaſt Cæfar camp caufe cauſe chief cloſe command courſe croud Dæmon death diftant dreadful earth ev'n facred fafe faid fame fatal fate fcorn fear feas fecret feek feems feen fhade fhall fhore fhould fide field fierce fight firft firſt fkies flain flames flaughter fled flood foldier fome foon forfook fortune foul ftand ftill ftream ftrong fuccefs fuch fure fwelling fword Gaul gods hafte hand head heaven himſelf hoftile horrid impious labours laft laſt Latian lefs length loft looſe Lucan mighty moſt Nero numbers o'er paffage paſt peace Pharfalia Phocis plain Pompey Pompey's purpoſe rage reft rife rofe Roman Rome Scythian ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood Sulpitius Verulanus ſupplies ſwift taſk thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand trembling vaft vanquish'd Virgil whofe winds yield