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... Italy to Spain a considerable time before , and were invested with several dignities and employments in that remote province of the Roman empire . His father was Marcus Annæus Mela , or Mella , a man of a distinguished merit and ...
... Italy to Spain a considerable time before , and were invested with several dignities and employments in that remote province of the Roman empire . His father was Marcus Annæus Mela , or Mella , a man of a distinguished merit and ...
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... Italy ; and all the empire that immortal pen could give him , is but a few miles upon the banks of the Tiber . So vast a disproportion there is between the importance of the subject of the Eneid and that of the Pharsalia , that we find ...
... Italy ; and all the empire that immortal pen could give him , is but a few miles upon the banks of the Tiber . So vast a disproportion there is between the importance of the subject of the Eneid and that of the Pharsalia , that we find ...
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... Italy . Cæsar , on the contrary , is repre- sented perfectly sedate , and free from fear . His courage and magnanimity brighten up as much upon this occasion , as afterwards they did at the battles of Pharsalia and Munda . Courage would ...
... Italy . Cæsar , on the contrary , is repre- sented perfectly sedate , and free from fear . His courage and magnanimity brighten up as much upon this occasion , as afterwards they did at the battles of Pharsalia and Munda . Courage would ...
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... Italy , and a compliment to Nero , Lucan gives the principal causes of the civil war , together with the characters of Cæsar and Pompey : after that , the story properly begins with Cæsar's passing the Rubicon , which was the bound of ...
... Italy , and a compliment to Nero , Lucan gives the principal causes of the civil war , together with the characters of Cæsar and Pompey : after that , the story properly begins with Cæsar's passing the Rubicon , which was the bound of ...
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... Italy's forbidden shore : Then rearing on the hostile bank his head , " Here , farewell peace and injur'd laws ! " ( he said . ) " Since faith is broke , and leagues are set aside , Henceforth thou , goddess Fortune , art my guide ; Let ...
... Italy's forbidden shore : Then rearing on the hostile bank his head , " Here , farewell peace and injur'd laws ! " ( he said . ) " Since faith is broke , and leagues are set aside , Henceforth thou , goddess Fortune , art my guide ; Let ...
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Page 356 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition...
Page 198 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 533 - Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have : But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Page 383 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and that the tender branches thereof will not cease.
Page 208 - Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Page 378 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Page 530 - The breathless embryo with a spirit warm'd ; But when the mother's throes begin to come, The creature, pent within the narrow room...
Page 347 - Two cities radiant on the shield appear, The image one of peace, and one of war, Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed...
Page 423 - By pray'rs are bent to pity, and to love; If human miseries can move their mind; If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind; Tell how we may restore, by second birth, Mankind, and people desolated earth.
Page 319 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.