Lives of the Roman Poets: Containing a Critical and Historical Account of Them and Their Writings, with Large Quotations of Their Most Celebrated Passages... To which is Added a Chronological Table Fitted to the Years Before and After Christ, Shewing the Times when They Flourished and Published Their Works... Together with an Introduction Concerning the Origin and Progress of Poetry in General, and an Essay on Dramatic Poetry in Particular, Volym 2W. Innys and R. Manby, 1753 |
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Sida 35
... reason of his advanced age from going to court to falute Trajan on his first coming to the Empire : and a few years after having been for fome time afflicted with an incurable : ulcer , after all remedies were found ineffectual for his ...
... reason of his advanced age from going to court to falute Trajan on his first coming to the Empire : and a few years after having been for fome time afflicted with an incurable : ulcer , after all remedies were found ineffectual for his ...
Sida 65
... reason why ; The reafon ! too much Poetry , A dang'rous fault , big with offence ; For who can bear th ' impertinence ? Whether I fit , ftand , run , or fing , Your verses in my ears must ring . When I go bathe , the Poet's there , And ...
... reason why ; The reafon ! too much Poetry , A dang'rous fault , big with offence ; For who can bear th ' impertinence ? Whether I fit , ftand , run , or fing , Your verses in my ears must ring . When I go bathe , the Poet's there , And ...
Sida 71
... reason by a friend of his that fate by him , he went out of the theatre ; the people fhewed their applaufe by a loud clap , and then the diverfion went on . Is it not almost unaccountable , if we did not confider the force of cuftom ...
... reason by a friend of his that fate by him , he went out of the theatre ; the people fhewed their applaufe by a loud clap , and then the diverfion went on . Is it not almost unaccountable , if we did not confider the force of cuftom ...
Sida 78
... reasons on both fides , will readily fee which opinion is the moft probable . As Satire seems to have arrived to its highest per- fection in JUVENAL , it will not be foreign to the prefent purpose to premise fome obfervations on its ...
... reasons on both fides , will readily fee which opinion is the moft probable . As Satire seems to have arrived to its highest per- fection in JUVENAL , it will not be foreign to the prefent purpose to premise fome obfervations on its ...
Sida 99
... reasons for his retreat , which had induced the primi . tive Chriftians to embrace the anchoret and monaftic life , namely to fhelter themselves from perfecution and avoid the fiery trial . But the following lines of the fame Paulinus ...
... reasons for his retreat , which had induced the primi . tive Chriftians to embrace the anchoret and monaftic life , namely to fhelter themselves from perfecution and avoid the fiery trial . But the following lines of the fame Paulinus ...
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Sida 91 - Intrust thy fortune to the powers above. Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant What their unerring wisdom sees. thee want : In goodness, as in greatness, they excel ; Ah, that we lov'd ourselves but half so well!
Sida 91 - To health of body, and content of mind ; A soul, that can securely death defy, And count it nature's privilege to die ; Serene and manly, harden'd to...
Sida 21 - Tis here, in different paths, the way divides; The right to Pluto's golden palace guides; The left to that unhappy region tends, Which to the depth of Tartarus descends ; The seat of night profound, and punish'd fiends.
Sida 24 - Libyan cities goes. Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows — Swift from the first ; and every moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings.
Sida 19 - Oppressed with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discouraged, and himself expell'd, Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand.
Sida 45 - Of martial tow'rs the founder shall become, The people Romans call, the city Rome. To them no bounds of empire I assign, Nor term of years to their immortal line.
Sida 121 - And fill the assembly with a shining train. A way there is in heaven's expanded plain, Which, when the skies are clear, is seen below, And mortals by the name of milky know.
Sida 121 - Lyes open to the Thunderer's abode: The Gods of greater nations dwell around, And, on the right and left, the palace bound; The commons where they can: the nobler sort With winding-doors wide open, front the court.
Sida 24 - And round with list'ning ears the flying plague is hung. She fills the peaceful universe with cries; No slumbers ever close her wakeful eyes; By day, from lofty tow'rs her head she shews, And spreads thro...
Sida 145 - Sweet negligence ! by artful study wrought, A graceful error, and a lovely fault. The judgment of the glass is here unknown ; Here mirrors are supplied by ev'ry stone.