The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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... gives us the catalogue of Lucan's works in an elegant manner , introducing the Mufe Calliope accofting him to this purpose : " When thou art scarce past the age of childhood " ( fays Calliope to Lucan ) thou shalt play with the ...
... gives us the catalogue of Lucan's works in an elegant manner , introducing the Mufe Calliope accofting him to this purpose : " When thou art scarce past the age of childhood " ( fays Calliope to Lucan ) thou shalt play with the ...
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... give place to " thee without the leaft envy , and even the divine neid fhall pay thee a juft refpect . " Thus far Statius concerning Lucan's work ; and even Lucan in two places of the Pharfalia has pro- mised himself immortality to his ...
... give place to " thee without the leaft envy , and even the divine neid fhall pay thee a juft refpect . " Thus far Statius concerning Lucan's work ; and even Lucan in two places of the Pharfalia has pro- mised himself immortality to his ...
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... give more inftances . 4 I defign not to enter into any criticifm on the Phar- falia , though I had ever fo much leifure or ability for it . I hate to oblige a certain fet of men , that read the ancients only to find fault with them ...
... give more inftances . 4 I defign not to enter into any criticifm on the Phar- falia , though I had ever fo much leifure or ability for it . I hate to oblige a certain fet of men , that read the ancients only to find fault with them ...
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... gives countenance to a ftory like this : and how commendable foever the zeal of a writer may be against the oppressor of his country , it ought not to . have transported him to fuch a degree of malevolence , as to paint the moft ...
... gives countenance to a ftory like this : and how commendable foever the zeal of a writer may be against the oppressor of his country , it ought not to . have transported him to fuch a degree of malevolence , as to paint the moft ...
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... give credit to them fo far as to forget his clemency , and remember his ambition , tỏ which they imputed all the cruelties and devastations committed by his successors . Refentments of this kind in the foul of a man , fond of the ...
... give credit to them fo far as to forget his clemency , and remember his ambition , tỏ which they imputed all the cruelties and devastations committed by his successors . Refentments of this kind in the foul of a man , fond of the ...
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