The Works of the English Poets: Rowe's LucanH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Peace fhall the world in friendly leagues compofe , And Janus ' dreadful gates for ever close . To me thy prefent godhead stands confeft , Oh let thy facred fury fire my breast ! So thou vouchfafe to hear , let Phoebus dwell Still ...
... Peace fhall the world in friendly leagues compofe , And Janus ' dreadful gates for ever close . To me thy prefent godhead stands confeft , Oh let thy facred fury fire my breast ! So thou vouchfafe to hear , let Phoebus dwell Still ...
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... peace was driven away by one confent . But thus the malice of our fate commands , And nothing great to long duration stands ; Afpiring Rome had rifen too much in height , And funk beneath her own unwieldy weight . So fhall one hour at ...
... peace was driven away by one confent . But thus the malice of our fate commands , And nothing great to long duration stands ; Afpiring Rome had rifen too much in height , And funk beneath her own unwieldy weight . So fhall one hour at ...
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... peace , Preferv'd the bond but for a little space , Still with an aukward difagreeing grace . ' Twas not a league by inclination made , But bare agreement , fuch as friends perfuade . $ 5 160 165 170 M -180 } 185 Defire Defire of war in ...
... peace , Preferv'd the bond but for a little space , Still with an aukward difagreeing grace . ' Twas not a league by inclination made , But bare agreement , fuch as friends perfuade . $ 5 160 165 170 M -180 } 185 Defire Defire of war in ...
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... peace , and sheath the ruthless fword . But this the fatal fifters doom deny'd ; The friends were fever'd , when the ... peaceful gown , 245 And civil functions weigh'd the foldier down ; E Difus'd Difus'd to arms , he turn'd him to the ...
... peace , and sheath the ruthless fword . But this the fatal fifters doom deny'd ; The friends were fever'd , when the ... peaceful gown , 245 And civil functions weigh'd the foldier down ; E Difus'd Difus'd to arms , he turn'd him to the ...
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... peace and injur'd laws ! ( he faid . ) Since faith is broke , and leagues are fet afide , Henceforth thou , goddess Fortune , art my guide ; Let fate and war the great event decide . He fpoke ; and , on the dreadful task intent , Speedy ...
... peace and injur'd laws ! ( he faid . ) Since faith is broke , and leagues are fet afide , Henceforth thou , goddess Fortune , art my guide ; Let fate and war the great event decide . He fpoke ; and , on the dreadful task intent , Speedy ...
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Ægypt Æneid againſt amidſt arms behold beneath blood bold breaſt Cæfar caufe cauſe chief command courſe croud Dæmon daring death diftant dreadful earth ev'n facred fafe faid fame fatal fate fcorn fear feas fecret fecure feek feems fhade fhall fhore fhould fide field fierce fight firft firſt fix'd fkies flain flames flaughter flies flood foldier fome foon fortune fought foul ftand ftill ftreams fuccefs fuch fupplies fwelling fword Gaul gods hafte hand head heaven himſelf hoftile horrid impious Jove juſt labours laft land laſt Latian length loft Lucan mighty mournful numbers o'er Parthian paſt peace Pharfalia plain Pompey Pompey's Pothinus proud Ptolemy purſue rage rife riſe Roman Rome Scythian ſea ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood ſword taſk thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand vanquish'd victor waſte whofe winds yield
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Page 229 - Thou know'st not I am he to whom 'tis given Never to want the care of watchful heaven. Obedient fortune waits my humble thrall, And, always ready, comes before I call. Let winds, and seas, loud wars at freedom wage, And waste upon themselves their empty rage ; A stronger, mightier dromon is thy friend, Thou and thy bark on Cesar's fate depend.
Page 397 - Rome? Or would'st thou know if, what we value here, Life, be a trifle hardly worth our care? What by old age and length of days we gain, More than to lengthen out the sense of pain?
Page 41 - Book, after a propofition of his fubjeft, a ihort view of the ruins occafioned by the civil wars in Italy, and a compliment to Nero, Lucan gives the principal caufes of the Civil War, together with the characters of Caefar and Pompey : after that, the ftory properly begins with Caefar' s paffing the Rubicon, which was the bound of his province towards Rome, and his march to Ariminum.
Page 151 - Drunk fast at many a leak the briny flood; Yielding at length the waters wide give way, And fold her in the bosom of the sea; Then o'er her head returning rolls the tide, And covering waves the sinking hatches hide. That fatal day was slaughter seen to reign, In wonders various, on the liquid plain. On Lycidas a steely grappling struck ; Struggling he drags with the tenacious hook, And deep had drown'd beneath...
Page 35 - J uran's much more strong, though overthrown by the extravagancy of his own force. The tenth book, imperfect as it is, gives us, among other things, a view of the Egyptian magnificence, with a curious account of the then received opinions of the increase and decrease of the Nile.
Page 7 - 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 grew up, his parents educated him with a care that became a promising genius and the rank of his family. His masters were Rhemmius...
Page 142 - Massilians, from th' encompass'd wall, Rejoiced to see the sylvan honours fall : They hope such power can never prosper long, Nor think the patient gods will bear the wrong. The...
Page 37 - Tenth was not only learned himself, but a great patron of learning, and used to be present at the conversations and performances of all the polite writers of his time. The wits of Rome entertained him one day, at his villa on the banks of the Tiber, with an interlude in the nature of a poetical masquerade. They had their Parnassus...
Page 270 - Where the moist carcass by degrees shall waste, There greedily on every part she flies, Strips the dry nails, and digs the gory eyes. Her teeth from gibbets gnaw the strangling noose, And from the cross dead murderers unloose : Her...
Page 55 - Since faith is broke, and leagues are fet afide, Henceforth thou, goddefs fortune, art my guide ; Let fate and war the great event decide.