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... Pompey ; but -especially with the death , and unworthy funeral , of the latter . In this Book is likewife drawn , with the greatest art , the character of young Ptolemy and his minifters ; particularly that of the villain Photinus is ...
... Pompey ; but -especially with the death , and unworthy funeral , of the latter . In this Book is likewife drawn , with the greatest art , the character of young Ptolemy and his minifters ; particularly that of the villain Photinus is ...
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... Pompey , Cæfar , Cato , and Labienus , fhine much more in Lucan , than Jupiter , Mercury , Juno , or Venus , do in Virgil . The ideas which Lucan has given us of these great men are truly greater , and affect us more fenfibly , than ...
... Pompey , Cæfar , Cato , and Labienus , fhine much more in Lucan , than Jupiter , Mercury , Juno , or Venus , do in Virgil . The ideas which Lucan has given us of these great men are truly greater , and affect us more fenfibly , than ...
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... Pompey : after that , the ftory properly begins with Cæfar's paffing the Rubicon , which was the bound of his province towards Rome , and his march to Ariminum . Thither the Tribunes and Curio , who had been driven out of the city by ...
... Pompey : after that , the ftory properly begins with Cæfar's paffing the Rubicon , which was the bound of his province towards Rome , and his march to Ariminum . Thither the Tribunes and Curio , who had been driven out of the city by ...
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... Pompey's hapless fons renew the war , And Munda view the flaughter'd heaps from far ; Though meagre famine in Perufia reign , Though Mutina with battles fill the plain ; Though Leuca's ifle , and wide Ambracia's bay , Record the rage of ...
... Pompey's hapless fons renew the war , And Munda view the flaughter'd heaps from far ; Though meagre famine in Perufia reign , Though Mutina with battles fill the plain ; Though Leuca's ifle , and wide Ambracia's bay , Record the rage of ...
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... Pompey thy past deeds by turns infest ,. And jealous glory burns within thy breast ; Thy fam'd piratic laurel feems to fade , Beneath fuccefsful Cæfar's rifing fhade ; His Gallic wreaths thou view'ft with anxious eyes Abové thy naval ...
... Pompey thy past deeds by turns infest ,. And jealous glory burns within thy breast ; Thy fam'd piratic laurel feems to fade , Beneath fuccefsful Cæfar's rifing fhade ; His Gallic wreaths thou view'ft with anxious eyes Abové thy naval ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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