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Page 62
... length from toil may cease , 625 And waste the poor remains of life with peace ? But march ! Your long - victorious enfigns rear , Let valour in its own juft caufe appear . When for redress intreating armies call , They who deny juft ...
... length from toil may cease , 625 And waste the poor remains of life with peace ? But march ! Your long - victorious enfigns rear , Let valour in its own juft caufe appear . When for redress intreating armies call , They who deny juft ...
Page 76
... length compell'd his ftubborn head to bow , Vanquish'd he yields him to the fatal blow The gufhing veins no chearful crimson pour , But stain with poisonous black the facred floor . The paler prophet ftood with horror ftruck ; Then with ...
... length compell'd his ftubborn head to bow , Vanquish'd he yields him to the fatal blow The gufhing veins no chearful crimson pour , But stain with poisonous black the facred floor . The paler prophet ftood with horror ftruck ; Then with ...
Page 81
... length with much difficulty . Now appear'd , Imanifeft the wrath divine And nature through the world the war declar'd ; Teeming with monfters , facred law fhe broke , And dire events in all her works bespoke , G Thou Thou Jove , who ...
... length with much difficulty . Now appear'd , Imanifeft the wrath divine And nature through the world the war declar'd ; Teeming with monfters , facred law fhe broke , And dire events in all her works bespoke , G Thou Thou Jove , who ...
Page 85
... length he lay , Where gyves and rankling fetters eat their way , And noisome vapours on his vitals prey . Ordain'd at eafe to dine in wretched Rome , He fuffer'd then , for wickedness to come . In vain his foes had arm'd the Cimbrian's ...
... length he lay , Where gyves and rankling fetters eat their way , And noisome vapours on his vitals prey . Ordain'd at eafe to dine in wretched Rome , He fuffer'd then , for wickedness to come . In vain his foes had arm'd the Cimbrian's ...
Page 90
... length , when putrid gore , with foul disgrace , 260 Hid the diftinguish'd features of the face , By night the miferable parents came , And bore their fons to fome forbidden flame . Well I remember , in that woeful reign , How I my ...
... length , when putrid gore , with foul disgrace , 260 Hid the diftinguish'd features of the face , By night the miferable parents came , And bore their fons to fome forbidden flame . Well I remember , in that woeful reign , How I my ...
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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