The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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... fome years , out - lafted his abilities to put it in execution for , when his life was defpaired of , and this part of the book remained unfinished , he ex- preffed to me his defire , that this Tranflation fhould be laid at your ...
... fome years , out - lafted his abilities to put it in execution for , when his life was defpaired of , and this part of the book remained unfinished , he ex- preffed to me his defire , that this Tranflation fhould be laid at your ...
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... fome friend to embalm their names to pofterity . This has been the fate of Lucan , and perhaps may be that of Mr. Rowe . All the accounts we have handed down to us of the first , are but very lame , and fcattered in frag- ments of ...
... fome friend to embalm their names to pofterity . This has been the fate of Lucan , and perhaps may be that of Mr. Rowe . All the accounts we have handed down to us of the first , are but very lame , and fcattered in frag- ments of ...
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... fome hints in writers who lived near this time , that leave us not altogether in the dark , about the life and works of this extraordinary young man . Marcus Annæus Lucan was of an equeftrian fa- mily of Rome , born at Corduba in Spain ...
... fome hints in writers who lived near this time , that leave us not altogether in the dark , about the life and works of this extraordinary young man . Marcus Annæus Lucan was of an equeftrian fa- mily of Rome , born at Corduba in Spain ...
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... fome critics detract from his language , as if it took a tincture from the place of his birth ; nor can I be brought to think otherwise , than that the language he writes in , is as pure Roman as any that was writ in Nero's time . As he ...
... fome critics detract from his language , as if it took a tincture from the place of his birth ; nor can I be brought to think otherwise , than that the language he writes in , is as pure Roman as any that was writ in Nero's time . As he ...
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... fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ; but it feems to me plain to be in the greatest earnest : and it is more than probable , that if Nero had been as wicked at that time as he became afterwards ...
... fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ; but it feems to me plain to be in the greatest earnest : and it is more than probable , that if Nero had been as wicked at that time as he became afterwards ...
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