The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements : to which is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorAlexander Donaldson, 1774 |
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... captivity of the husband diffolved the marriage of course ; as among us , impotence , or a dultery ; not to mention the reafons of a moral and public nature , which I have put into her own mouth in the scene betwixt her and Syphax ...
... captivity of the husband diffolved the marriage of course ; as among us , impotence , or a dultery ; not to mention the reafons of a moral and public nature , which I have put into her own mouth in the scene betwixt her and Syphax ...
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... captive here I fee thee , fall'n below My most revengeful wifh ; and all the rage , The noble fury that this morn inflam'd me , Is funk to foft compaffion . In the field , The per❜lous front of war , there is the scene Of brave revenge ...
... captive here I fee thee , fall'n below My most revengeful wifh ; and all the rage , The noble fury that this morn inflam'd me , Is funk to foft compaffion . In the field , The per❜lous front of war , there is the scene Of brave revenge ...
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... captive , to her bed ? Thy bonds divorce And free her from thy pow'r . All laws in this , Roman and Carthaginian , all agree . Syph . Here , here , begins the bitterness of ruin ! Here my chains grind me first ! Maf . Poor Sophonisba ...
... captive , to her bed ? Thy bonds divorce And free her from thy pow'r . All laws in this , Roman and Carthaginian , all agree . Syph . Here , here , begins the bitterness of ruin ! Here my chains grind me first ! Maf . Poor Sophonisba ...
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... captive in my pow'r , yet will I ftill Refign her . Naro . I'll not doubt thy fortitude , My Mafiniffa , thy exalted purpose , Not to be loft in love : but ah ! we know not Oft , till experience fighs it to the foul , 28 SOPHONIS BA .
... captive in my pow'r , yet will I ftill Refign her . Naro . I'll not doubt thy fortitude , My Mafiniffa , thy exalted purpose , Not to be loft in love : but ah ! we know not Oft , till experience fighs it to the foul , 28 SOPHONIS BA .
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... Struck ev'ry heart was this - A noble virgin , ' Confpicuous far o'er all the captive dames , Was mark'd the gen'ral's prize . She wept , and blufh'd , Young , fresh , and blooming like the morn . C 3 SOPHONISBA . 20.
... Struck ev'ry heart was this - A noble virgin , ' Confpicuous far o'er all the captive dames , Was mark'd the gen'ral's prize . She wept , and blufh'd , Young , fresh , and blooming like the morn . C 3 SOPHONISBA . 20.
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