The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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... book remained unfinished , he ex- preffed to me his defire , that this Tranflation fhould be laid at your Majefty's feet , as a mark of that zeal and veneration which he had always entertained for your Majefty's Royal Perfon and virtues ...
... book remained unfinished , he ex- preffed to me his defire , that this Tranflation fhould be laid at your Majefty's feet , as a mark of that zeal and veneration which he had always entertained for your Majefty's Royal Perfon and virtues ...
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... phi- lofopher . It must have been in this ftage of Nero's life , that Lucan has offered up to him that poetical incense we find in the First Book of the Pharfalia : for it ; it is not to be imagined , that a PREFACE TO.
... phi- lofopher . It must have been in this ftage of Nero's life , that Lucan has offered up to him that poetical incense we find in the First Book of the Pharfalia : for it ; it is not to be imagined , that a PREFACE TO.
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... 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 expired , in the 27th year of his age , and tenth of Nero . The paffage was that ...
... 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 expired , in the 27th year of his age , and tenth of Nero . The paffage was that ...
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... books , that have perifhed by the injury of time , and of which nothing remains but the titles . The firft we are ... Book he ftaked his fame on was his Pharfalia ; the only one that now remains , and which Nero's cruelty has left us ...
... books , that have perifhed by the injury of time , and of which nothing remains but the titles . The firft we are ... Book he ftaked his fame on was his Pharfalia ; the only one that now remains , and which Nero's cruelty has left us ...
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... Book , which I beg leave to give in profe , though Mr. Rowe has done it a thousand times better in verfe . " One day ( fays he ) when these wars shall " be spoken - of in ages yet to come , and among na- ❝tions far remote from this ...
... Book , which I beg leave to give in profe , though Mr. Rowe has done it a thousand times better in verfe . " One day ( fays he ) when these wars shall " be spoken - of in ages yet to come , and among na- ❝tions far remote from this ...
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