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... light , whom , to- gether with his uncle Seneca , he had facrificed to his revenge . Notwithstanding this , we have fome hints in writers who lived near this time , that leave us not altogether in the dark , about the life and works of ...
... light , whom , to- gether with his uncle Seneca , he had facrificed to his revenge . Notwithstanding this , we have fome hints in writers who lived near this time , that leave us not altogether in the dark , about the life and works of ...
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... light , upon every proper occafion . He never makes him speak , but it is with all the ftrength of argument , and all the flowers of rhetoric . It were tedious to enumerate every inftance of this ; and I fhall only mention the fpeech to ...
... light , upon every proper occafion . He never makes him speak , but it is with all the ftrength of argument , and all the flowers of rhetoric . It were tedious to enumerate every inftance of this ; and I fhall only mention the fpeech to ...
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... light , And Hymen's tapers funk in endless night , The tender ties of kindred - love were torn , Forgotten all , and bury'd in her urn . Oh ! if her death had haply been delay'd , How might the daughter and the wife perfuade ! 205 219 ...
... light , And Hymen's tapers funk in endless night , The tender ties of kindred - love were torn , Forgotten all , and bury'd in her urn . Oh ! if her death had haply been delay'd , How might the daughter and the wife perfuade ! 205 219 ...
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... light . To the mid Forum on the foldier pafs'd . There halted , and his victor enfigns plac'd : With dire alarms from band to band around , The fife , hoarfe horn , and rattling trumpets found . The ftarting citizens uprear their heads ...
... light . To the mid Forum on the foldier pafs'd . There halted , and his victor enfigns plac'd : With dire alarms from band to band around , The fife , hoarfe horn , and rattling trumpets found . The ftarting citizens uprear their heads ...
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... light . The moon , in all her brother's beams array'd , Was blotted by the earth's approaching fhade : 935 The fun himself , in his meridian race , In fable darkness veil'd his brighter face ; The The trembling world beheld his fading ...
... light . The moon , in all her brother's beams array'd , Was blotted by the earth's approaching fhade : 935 The fun himself , in his meridian race , In fable darkness veil'd his brighter face ; The The trembling world beheld his fading ...
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