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... never more to plead at the bar , nor repeat any of his performances in public , as all the eminent orators and poets were used to do . It is no wonder that a young man , an admirable poet , and one conscious enough of a superior genius ...
... never more to plead at the bar , nor repeat any of his performances in public , as all the eminent orators and poets were used to do . It is no wonder that a young man , an admirable poet , and one conscious enough of a superior genius ...
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... never so much his enemy , has not omitted his generous usage of Domitius at Corfinium , or of Afranius and Petreius , when they were his prisoners in Spain . What can be then said for Lucan , when he represents him riding in triumph ...
... never so much his enemy , has not omitted his generous usage of Domitius at Corfinium , or of Afranius and Petreius , when they were his prisoners in Spain . What can be then said for Lucan , when he represents him riding in triumph ...
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... never makes him speak , but it is with all the strength of argument and all the flowers of rhetoric . It were tedious to enumerate every instance of this ; and I shall only mention the speech to his army before the battle of Pharsalia ...
... never makes him speak , but it is with all the strength of argument and all the flowers of rhetoric . It were tedious to enumerate every instance of this ; and I shall only mention the speech to his army before the battle of Pharsalia ...
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... never ! never from your sides be torn ; Resolv'd to follow still your common fate , And on your very names , and last remains to wait . Thus let it be , since thus the gods ordain ; Since hecatombs of Romans must be slain , Assist the ...
... never ! never from your sides be torn ; Resolv'd to follow still your common fate , And on your very names , and last remains to wait . Thus let it be , since thus the gods ordain ; Since hecatombs of Romans must be slain , Assist the ...
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... never bore : A soul more bright , more great , she never knew , While to thy country's interest thou wert true . But thy bad fate o'er - rul'd thy native worth , And in an age abandon'd brought thee forth ; When vice in triumph through ...
... never bore : A soul more bright , more great , she never knew , While to thy country's interest thou wert true . But thy bad fate o'er - rul'd thy native worth , And in an age abandon'd brought thee forth ; When vice in triumph through ...
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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.