The Works of the English Poets: Rowe's LucanH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... reign of Caligula . His family had been transplanted from Italy to Spain a confiderable time before , and were invefted with feveral dignities and employments in that remote pro- vince of the Roman empire . His father was Marcus Annæus ...
... reign of Caligula . His family had been transplanted from Italy to Spain a confiderable time before , and were invefted with feveral dignities and employments in that remote pro- vince of the Roman empire . His father was Marcus Annæus ...
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... reign , either really was , or pretended to be , endowed with all the amiable qualities that became an emperor and a phi- lofopher . It must have been in this ftage of Nero's Jife , that Lucan has offered up to him that poetical incense ...
... reign , either really was , or pretended to be , endowed with all the amiable qualities that became an emperor and a phi- lofopher . It must have been in this ftage of Nero's Jife , that Lucan has offered up to him that poetical incense ...
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... reign , Tis juft , ye gods , nor ought we to complain : Oppreft with death though dire Pharsalia groan , Though Latian blood the Punic ghosts atone ; Though Pompey's hapless fons renew the war , And Munda view the flaughter'd heaps from ...
... reign , Tis juft , ye gods , nor ought we to complain : Oppreft with death though dire Pharsalia groan , Though Latian blood the Punic ghosts atone ; Though Pompey's hapless fons renew the war , And Munda view the flaughter'd heaps from ...
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... reign , with one confenting voice , The gods and nature shall approve thy choice . But , oh ! whatever be thy godhead great , Fix not in regions too remote thy feat ; Nor deign thou near the frozen bear to shine , Nor where the fultry ...
... reign , with one confenting voice , The gods and nature shall approve thy choice . But , oh ! whatever be thy godhead great , Fix not in regions too remote thy feat ; Nor deign thou near the frozen bear to shine , Nor where the fultry ...
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... reign with anarchy and eldest night ; The starry lamps shall combat in the sky , And loft and blended in each other die ; 130 135 145 Quench'd in the deep the heavenly fires fhall fall , And ocean caft abroad o'er - fpread the ball ...
... reign with anarchy and eldest night ; The starry lamps shall combat in the sky , And loft and blended in each other die ; 130 135 145 Quench'd in the deep the heavenly fires fhall fall , And ocean caft abroad o'er - fpread the ball ...
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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.