The Works of the English Poets, Volume 26H. Baldwin, 1779 - 261 pages |
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Page 204
... rais'd , thus Lentulus begun . If yet our Roman virtue is the fame , Yet worthy of the race from which we came , And emulates our great forefathers name , } Let Let not our thoughts , by fad remembrance led , 204 ROWE'S POEM S.
... rais'd , thus Lentulus begun . If yet our Roman virtue is the fame , Yet worthy of the race from which we came , And emulates our great forefathers name , } Let Let not our thoughts , by fad remembrance led , 204 ROWE'S POEM S.
Page 220
... fame by Labienus won , 500 When rank'd amidst my warlike friends , he fhone : Now mark what follows on his faithful change , And fee him with his chief new - chofen range ; By land , and fea , where - e'er my arms he spies , An ...
... fame by Labienus won , 500 When rank'd amidst my warlike friends , he fhone : Now mark what follows on his faithful change , And fee him with his chief new - chofen range ; By land , and fea , where - e'er my arms he spies , An ...
Page 223
... fame folemnity of face , The reverend augur feems to fill his place : Though now he hears not when the thunders roll , Nor fees the flight of the ill - boding owl . Then funk the ftate and dignity of Rome , Thence monthly confuls ...
... fame folemnity of face , The reverend augur feems to fill his place : Though now he hears not when the thunders roll , Nor fees the flight of the ill - boding owl . Then funk the ftate and dignity of Rome , Thence monthly confuls ...
Page 235
... fame . Far northern nations own me for their lord , And envious factions crouch beneath my Inferior Pompey yields to me at home , And only fills a second place in Rome . My country has my high behefts obey'd , And at my feet her laws ...
... fame . Far northern nations own me for their lord , And envious factions crouch beneath my Inferior Pompey yields to me at home , And only fills a second place in Rome . My country has my high behefts obey'd , And at my feet her laws ...
Page 247
... fame no more record the walls of Troy , Which gods alone could build , and gods destroy ; Nor let the Parthian wonder , to have feen The labours of the Babylonian queen : 75 80 Behold this large , this fpacious tract of ground ! Like ...
... fame no more record the walls of Troy , Which gods alone could build , and gods destroy ; Nor let the Parthian wonder , to have feen The labours of the Babylonian queen : 75 80 Behold this large , this fpacious tract of ground ! Like ...
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