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... head ? PER . " Their crooked horns the Mimallonian crew With blafts infpir'd : and Baffaris , who flew The fcornful calf , with fword advanc'd on high , Made from his neck his haughty head to fly . And Mænas , when with ivy bridles ...
... head ? PER . " Their crooked horns the Mimallonian crew With blafts infpir'd : and Baffaris , who flew The fcornful calf , with fword advanc'd on high , Made from his neck his haughty head to fly . And Mænas , when with ivy bridles ...
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... head , I cannot but in some measure call in question fome parts of Cæfar's character as drawn by Lucan ; which feem to me not altogether agreeable to truth , nor to the univerfal con- fent of history . I wish I could vindicate him in ...
... head , I cannot but in some measure call in question fome parts of Cæfar's character as drawn by Lucan ; which feem to me not altogether agreeable to truth , nor to the univerfal con- fent of history . I wish I could vindicate him in ...
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... head , that it is odd , Lucan fhould thus miftake this part of Cæfar's character , and yet do him fo much juftice in the reft . His greatnefs of mind , his intre- pid courage , his indefatigable activity , his magnani- mity , his ...
... head , that it is odd , Lucan fhould thus miftake this part of Cæfar's character , and yet do him fo much juftice in the reft . His greatnefs of mind , his intre- pid courage , his indefatigable activity , his magnani- mity , his ...
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... head the caufe of Liberty and Rome . This Book is the longeft , and , in my opinion , the moft entertaining in the whole poem . The march of Cato through the deferts of Libya , affords a noble and agreeable va- riety of matter ; and the ...
... head the caufe of Liberty and Rome . This Book is the longeft , and , in my opinion , the moft entertaining in the whole poem . The march of Cato through the deferts of Libya , affords a noble and agreeable va- riety of matter ; and the ...
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... heads before , First fell by fatal partnership of What blind ambition bids your force combine ? What means this frantic league in which you join ? Mistaken men who hope to fhare the spoil , And hold the world within one common toil ...
... heads before , First fell by fatal partnership of What blind ambition bids your force combine ? What means this frantic league in which you join ? Mistaken men who hope to fhare the spoil , And hold the world within one common toil ...
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