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... should unite and become agreeable to one another ; for if we confider Lucan critically , we shall find in him a strong bent towards Satire . His man- ner , it is true , is more declamatory and diffuse than Perfius but Satire is ftill in ...
... should unite and become agreeable to one another ; for if we confider Lucan critically , we shall find in him a strong bent towards Satire . His man- ner , it is true , is more declamatory and diffuse than Perfius but Satire is ftill in ...
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... should impose upon the world . This I may affirm , the moft im- portant events , and the whole thread of action in Lucan , are agreeable to the univerfal confent of all authors , that have treated of the civil wars of Rome . If now and ...
... should impose upon the world . This I may affirm , the moft im- portant events , and the whole thread of action in Lucan , are agreeable to the univerfal confent of all authors , that have treated of the civil wars of Rome . If now and ...
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... should make no fcruple to prefer " them to the divines and philofophers of our time . " We may fee , fays he , in the concourfe of so many people , that came to confult the oracle of " Hammon , what effect a public opinion can pro ...
... should make no fcruple to prefer " them to the divines and philofophers of our time . " We may fee , fays he , in the concourfe of so many people , that came to confult the oracle of " Hammon , what effect a public opinion can pro ...
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... should blush to wear . That age by honeft poverty adorn'd , 315 Which brought the manly Romans forth , is fcorn'd ; Where - ever aught pernicious does abound , For luxury all lands are ranfack'd round , And dear - bought deaths the ...
... should blush to wear . That age by honeft poverty adorn'd , 315 Which brought the manly Romans forth , is fcorn'd ; Where - ever aught pernicious does abound , For luxury all lands are ranfack'd round , And dear - bought deaths the ...
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... should buy , But think a civil war a price too high . Thus groan they at approaching dire events , And thus expiring piety laments . Mean - while the hoary fire his years deplores , And age that former miferies reftores : He hates his ...
... should buy , But think a civil war a price too high . Thus groan they at approaching dire events , And thus expiring piety laments . Mean - while the hoary fire his years deplores , And age that former miferies reftores : He hates his ...
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