The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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... against ambition and unbounded power . : The progrefs he made in all parts of learning muft , needs have been very great , confidering the pregnancy of his genius , and the nice care that was taken in cul- tivating it by a suitable ...
... against ambition and unbounded power . : The progrefs he made in all parts of learning muft , needs have been very great , confidering the pregnancy of his genius , and the nice care that was taken in cul- tivating it by a suitable ...
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... 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 me plain to ...
... 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 me plain to ...
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... against him , upon ' the account of his poetry . Though the spirit and height of the Roman poetry was fomewhat declined from what it had been in the time of Auguftus , yet it was still an art beloved and cultivated . Nero himself was ...
... against him , upon ' the account of his poetry . Though the spirit and height of the Roman poetry was fomewhat declined from what it had been in the time of Auguftus , yet it was still an art beloved and cultivated . Nero himself was ...
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... against his mother . This ftory feems to me to be a meer calumny , and invented only to detract from his fame . It is certainly the most unlikely thing in the world , con- fidering the whole conduct of his life , and that noble fcheme ...
... against his mother . This ftory feems to me to be a meer calumny , and invented only to detract from his fame . It is certainly the most unlikely thing in the world , con- fidering the whole conduct of his life , and that noble fcheme ...
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... against them ! Shall we wonder then , that the Roman people , fmarting under the lashes of Nero's tyranny , thould exclaim in the bittereft terms against the memory of Julius Cæfar , fince it was from him that Nero de- rived that power ...
... against them ! Shall we wonder then , that the Roman people , fmarting under the lashes of Nero's tyranny , thould exclaim in the bittereft terms against the memory of Julius Cæfar , fince it was from him that Nero de- rived that power ...
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