The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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... thought a bad emperor , than a bad poet or musician . Now Lucan , though ther in favour , was too honeft and too open to applaud the bombast stuff that Nero was every day repeating in public . Lucan appears to have been much of the ...
... thought a bad emperor , than a bad poet or musician . Now Lucan , though ther in favour , was too honeft and too open to applaud the bombast stuff that Nero was every day repeating in public . Lucan appears to have been much of the ...
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... to thy1ambi- ❝tion . If there may be allowed any renown to a “ Roman Muse , while Homer's verses shall be " thought worthy of praife , they that shall live after C ( us , us , fhall read his and mine together : My ROWE'S LUCAN .
... to thy1ambi- ❝tion . If there may be allowed any renown to a “ Roman Muse , while Homer's verses shall be " thought worthy of praife , they that shall live after C ( us , us , fhall read his and mine together : My ROWE'S LUCAN .
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... thought to make an apology for Lucan's thus traducing the memory of Cæfar ; but would only beg the fame indulgence to his partiality , that we are willing to allow to most other authors ; for I cannot help believing all historians are ...
... thought to make an apology for Lucan's thus traducing the memory of Cæfar ; but would only beg the fame indulgence to his partiality , that we are willing to allow to most other authors ; for I cannot help believing all historians are ...
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... thought excellencies in them ; and befides , he has made us most ample amends in the many extraordinary beauties of his poem . The ftory itself is Noble and Great ; for what can there be in history more worthy of our knowledge and ...
... thought excellencies in them ; and befides , he has made us most ample amends in the many extraordinary beauties of his poem . The ftory itself is Noble and Great ; for what can there be in history more worthy of our knowledge and ...
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... thought he ever dreamed of what he afterwards attained to it is in one of Cicero's letters to him , wherein he repeats the words of Cæfar's letters to him fome time before .. The words are thefe ; " As to what concerns Marcus " Furius ...
... thought he ever dreamed of what he afterwards attained to it is in one of Cicero's letters to him , wherein he repeats the words of Cæfar's letters to him fome time before .. The words are thefe ; " As to what concerns Marcus " Furius ...
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