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Page 42
... wide - ftretching to the distant shore , What crowns , what empires , might that blood havegain'd , With which Emathia's fatal fields were ftain'd ! Where Seres in their filken woods refide , Where swift Araxes rolls his rapid tide ...
... wide - ftretching to the distant shore , What crowns , what empires , might that blood havegain'd , With which Emathia's fatal fields were ftain'd ! Where Seres in their filken woods refide , Where swift Araxes rolls his rapid tide ...
Page 43
... wide , half - ruin'd walls remain , There mouldering pillars nodding roots fuftain . The landskip , once in various beauty fpread , With yellow harvefts and the flowery mead , Displays a wild uncultivated face , 55 Which bushy brakes ...
... wide , half - ruin'd walls remain , There mouldering pillars nodding roots fuftain . The landskip , once in various beauty fpread , With yellow harvefts and the flowery mead , Displays a wild uncultivated face , 55 Which bushy brakes ...
Page 44
... wide Ambracia's bay , Record the rage of Actium's fatal day ; Though fervile hands are arm'd to man the fleet , And on Sicilian feas the navies meet ; All crimes , all horrors , we with joy regard , Since thou , O Cæfar , art the great ...
... wide Ambracia's bay , Record the rage of Actium's fatal day ; Though fervile hands are arm'd to man the fleet , And on Sicilian feas the navies meet ; All crimes , all horrors , we with joy regard , Since thou , O Cæfar , art the great ...
Page 47
... wide dominion rife , Nor was the world their impious fury's prize ; Divided power contention still affords , And for a village ftrove the petty lords . The fierce , triumvirate combin'd in peace , Preferv'd the bond but for a little ...
... wide dominion rife , Nor was the world their impious fury's prize ; Divided power contention still affords , And for a village ftrove the petty lords . The fierce , triumvirate combin'd in peace , Preferv'd the bond but for a little ...
Page 48
... wide - extended main , Could furnish room for only one to reign , When dying Julia firft forfook the 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 ...
... wide - extended main , Could furnish room for only one to reign , When dying Julia firft forfook the 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 ...
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Æneid againſt amidſt arms Behold beneath blood bold breaſt Cæfar camp caufe cauſe chief cloſe command courſe croud Dæmon death diftant dreadful earth ev'n facred fafe faid fame fatal fate fcorn fear feas fecret feek feems feen fhade fhall fhore fhould fide field fierce fight firft firſt fkies flain flames flaughter fled flood foldier fome foon forfook fortune foul ftand ftill ftream ftrong fuccefs fuch fure fwelling fword Gaul gods hafte hand head heaven himſelf hoftile horrid impious labours laft laſt Latian lefs length loft looſe Lucan mighty moſt Nero numbers o'er paffage paſt peace Pharfalia Phocis plain Pompey Pompey's purpoſe rage reft rife rofe Roman Rome Scythian ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood Sulpitius Verulanus ſupplies ſwift taſk thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand trembling vaft vanquish'd Virgil whofe winds yield