 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...vulgar was their name; Yet such their virtues, that their loss alone For Rome and all uur legions did atone ; Their country's doom they by their own retriev'd,...Themselves more worth than all the host they sav'd. The last good king whom willing Rome obey'd Was the poor offspring of a captive maid ; Yet he those... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...virtuos, that their loss alone For Rome and all our legions did atone l Their country's doom they bj- their own retriev'd, Themselves more worth than all the host they sav'd. The last good kiny whom willing Rome obcy'd Was the poor offspring of a captive maid ; Yet he those... | |
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The last good kins; whom willing Rome obey'd Was the poor offspring of a captive maid ; Yet he those robes of empire justly bore, Which Romulus, our sacred founder, wore: Nicely he gain'd, and well possest the throne, Not for his father's merit, but his... 