The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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Samuel Johnson. Among the croud , religious fears difperfe The faws of Sibyls , and foreboding verse . Bellona's priests , a barbarous frantic train , Whofe mangled arms a thousand wounds difdain , Tofs their wild locks , and , with a ...
Samuel Johnson. Among the croud , religious fears difperfe The faws of Sibyls , and foreboding verse . Bellona's priests , a barbarous frantic train , Whofe mangled arms a thousand wounds difdain , Tofs their wild locks , and , with a ...
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... Phoebus , wherefore does this fury rife ? What mean thefe fpears and fhields before my eyes ? 1150 I fee the Roman battles croud the plain ! I I fee 1 LUCAN'S PHARSALIA , Book I. 79 With potent wrath around thy influence streams, 1120 ...
... Phoebus , wherefore does this fury rife ? What mean thefe fpears and fhields before my eyes ? 1150 I fee the Roman battles croud the plain ! I I fee 1 LUCAN'S PHARSALIA , Book I. 79 With potent wrath around thy influence streams, 1120 ...
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Samuel Johnson. I fee the Roman battles croud the plain ! I fee the war , but seek the foe in vain . Again I fly , I feek the rifing day , Where Nile's Ægyptian waters take their way : I fee , I know upon the guilty fhore , The hero's ...
Samuel Johnson. I fee the Roman battles croud the plain ! I fee the war , but seek the foe in vain . Again I fly , I feek the rifing day , Where Nile's Ægyptian waters take their way : I fee , I know upon the guilty fhore , The hero's ...
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... croud to go , And be himself part of the pompous woe ; Then waits till , every ceremony past , 460 His own fond hand may light the pile at last . So fix'd , fo faithful to thy cause , O Rome , With fuch a conftancy and love I come ...
... croud to go , And be himself part of the pompous woe ; Then waits till , every ceremony past , 460 His own fond hand may light the pile at last . So fix'd , fo faithful to thy cause , O Rome , With fuch a conftancy and love I come ...
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... croud in dull suspension hung , Nor with applauding acclamations rung ; No chearful ardour waves the lifted hand , Nor military cries the fight demand . The chief perceiv'd the foldier's fire to fail , And Cæfar's fame forerunning to ...
... croud in dull suspension hung , Nor with applauding acclamations rung ; No chearful ardour waves the lifted hand , Nor military cries the fight demand . The chief perceiv'd the foldier's fire to fail , And Cæfar's fame forerunning to ...
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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