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... laft fickness , nor the importunities of his friends fince , to introduce into the world this his pofthumous Trans- lation of Lucan , with fomething by way of preface . I am very fenfible how much it is out of my fphere , and that I ...
... laft fickness , nor the importunities of his friends fince , to introduce into the world this his pofthumous Trans- lation of Lucan , with fomething by way of preface . I am very fenfible how much it is out of my fphere , and that I ...
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... laft alarm in every part , he called to mind a paffage of his own in the IXth Book of the Pharfalia , which he repeated to the standers - by , with the fame grace and accent , with which he used to declaim in public , and immediately ...
... laft alarm in every part , he called to mind a paffage of his own in the IXth Book of the Pharfalia , which he repeated to the standers - by , with the fame grace and accent , with which he used to declaim in public , and immediately ...
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... laft in Italy ; and all the empire that immor- tal pen could give him , is but a few miles upon the banks of the Tiber . So vaft a difproportion there is between the importance of the subject of the Æneid and that of the Pharfalia ...
... laft in Italy ; and all the empire that immor- tal pen could give him , is but a few miles upon the banks of the Tiber . So vaft a difproportion there is between the importance of the subject of the Æneid and that of the Pharfalia ...
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... laft catastrophe , which muft put an end to this frame of heaven and earth . To this is added , in the most elevated ftyle , his fentiments of the Immortality of " the Soul , " and of rewards and punishments after this life . All these ...
... laft catastrophe , which muft put an end to this frame of heaven and earth . To this is added , in the most elevated ftyle , his fentiments of the Immortality of " the Soul , " and of rewards and punishments after this life . All these ...
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... tear the world . Thus power and greatnefs to deftruction hafte , Thus bounds to human happiness are plac'd , And Jove forbids profperity to laft . 150 } Yet power . 160 165 Yet Fortune , when he meant 46 % ROWE'S POEM S.
... tear the world . Thus power and greatnefs to deftruction hafte , Thus bounds to human happiness are plac'd , And Jove forbids profperity to laft . 150 } Yet power . 160 165 Yet Fortune , when he meant 46 % ROWE'S POEM S.
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