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... live all thefe . Lucan wrote feveral books , that have perifhed by the injury of time , and of which nothing remains but the titles . The firft we are told he wrote , was a Poem on the Combat between Achilles and Hector , and Priam's ...
... live all thefe . Lucan wrote feveral books , that have perifhed by the injury of time , and of which nothing remains but the titles . The firft we are told he wrote , was a Poem on the Combat between Achilles and Hector , and Priam's ...
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... live the liberties of his country ; and the fate of Pompey , once the darling of Rome . Thou shalt , like a true Roman , weep over the " crime of the young tyrant Ptolemy ; and fhalt raife to Pompey , by the power of thy eloquence , a ...
... live the liberties of his country ; and the fate of Pompey , once the darling of Rome . Thou shalt , like a true Roman , weep over the " crime of the young tyrant Ptolemy ; and fhalt raife to Pompey , by the power of thy eloquence , a ...
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... ❝tion . If there may be allowed any renown to a “ Roman Muse , while Homer's verses shall be " thought worthy of praife , they that shall live after C ( us , us , fhall read his and mine together : My ROWE'S LUCAN .
... ❝tion . If there may be allowed any renown to a “ Roman Muse , while Homer's verses shall be " thought worthy of praife , they that shall live after C ( us , us , fhall read his and mine together : My ROWE'S LUCAN .
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... live , and no time nor age fhall confign it ❝ to oblivion . " This is all that I can trace from the ancients , or him- felf , concerning Lucan's life and writings ; and indeed there is fearce any one author , either ancient or modern ...
... live , and no time nor age fhall confign it ❝ to oblivion . " This is all that I can trace from the ancients , or him- felf , concerning Lucan's life and writings ; and indeed there is fearce any one author , either ancient or modern ...
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... lives of many to a period haste , And thousands fhall together breathe their last . If Saturn's fullen beams were lifted high , And baneful reign'd afcendant o'er the sky , Then moist Aquarius deluges might rain , And earth once more ...
... lives of many to a period haste , And thousands fhall together breathe their last . If Saturn's fullen beams were lifted high , And baneful reign'd afcendant o'er the sky , Then moist Aquarius deluges might rain , And earth once more ...
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