The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 27Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Cæfar , could never have stooped so vilely low , as to celebrate a tyrant and a monster in fuch an open I know fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ; but it seems to me plain to be in the greatest ...
... Cæfar , could never have stooped so vilely low , as to celebrate a tyrant and a monster in fuch an open I know fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ; but it seems to me plain to be in the greatest ...
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... Cæfar , profane thou not through envy the funeral monuments of these 66 reat patriots , that fell here facrifices to thy ambi- " tion . If there may be allowed any renown to a Roman Mufe , while Homer's verfes fhall be " thought worthy ...
... Cæfar , profane thou not through envy the funeral monuments of these 66 reat patriots , that fell here facrifices to thy ambi- " tion . If there may be allowed any renown to a Roman Mufe , while Homer's verfes fhall be " thought worthy ...
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... Cæfar's character as drawn by Lucan ; which feem to me not altogether agreeable to truth , nor to the universal con- fent of history . I wish I could vindicate him in fome of his perfonal reprefentations of men , and Cæfar in particular ...
... Cæfar's character as drawn by Lucan ; which feem to me not altogether agreeable to truth , nor to the universal con- fent of history . I wish I could vindicate him in fome of his perfonal reprefentations of men , and Cæfar in particular ...
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... Cæfar , fince it was from him that Nero de- rived that power to use mankind as he did ? Those that lived in Lucan's time , did not confider so much what Cæfar was in his own perfon , or temper , as what he was the occafion of to them ...
... Cæfar , fince it was from him that Nero de- rived that power to use mankind as he did ? Those that lived in Lucan's time , did not confider so much what Cæfar was in his own perfon , or temper , as what he was the occafion of to them ...
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... Cæfar would have esteemed it one of the greatest felicities of his , to have had it in his power to pardon him . I would not be thought to make an apology for Lucan's thus traducing the memory of Cæfar ; but would only beg the fame ...
... Cæfar would have esteemed it one of the greatest felicities of his , to have had it in his power to pardon him . I would not be thought to make an apology for Lucan's thus traducing the memory of Cæfar ; but would only beg the fame ...
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