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Page 29
... battles of Pharfalia and Munda . Courage would have cost Virgil nothing , to have bestowed it on his hero ; and he might as eafily have thrown him upon the coaft of Carthage in a calm temper of mind , as in a panic fear.folga St ...
... battles of Pharfalia and Munda . Courage would have cost Virgil nothing , to have bestowed it on his hero ; and he might as eafily have thrown him upon the coaft of Carthage in a calm temper of mind , as in a panic fear.folga St ...
Page 32
... battle of Pharfalia , which decided the fate of Rome . It is fo related , that the reader may rather think himself a spectator of , or even engaged in , the battle , than fo remote from the age in which it was fought . There is ...
... battle of Pharfalia , which decided the fate of Rome . It is fo related , that the reader may rather think himself a spectator of , or even engaged in , the battle , than fo remote from the age in which it was fought . There is ...
Page 39
... battles , you imagine them not related , but acted : towns alarmed , armies engaged , the eagerness and terror of the feveral foldiers , feem prefent to your view . As our author is frequent and fertile in defcriptions ; and none more ...
... battles , you imagine them not related , but acted : towns alarmed , armies engaged , the eagerness and terror of the feveral foldiers , feem prefent to your view . As our author is frequent and fertile in defcriptions ; and none more ...
Page 44
... battles fill the plain ; Though Leuca's ifle , and 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 ...
... battles fill the plain ; Though Leuca's ifle , and 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 ...
Page 57
... battle and from blood abftain'd ; Fortune and fate , impatient of delay , Force every foft relenting thought away . A lucky chance a fair pretence supplies , And juftice in his favour feems to rife . New accidents new ftings to rage ...
... battle and from blood abftain'd ; Fortune and fate , impatient of delay , Force every foft relenting thought away . A lucky chance a fair pretence supplies , And juftice in his favour feems to rife . New accidents new ftings to rage ...
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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