Roman Portraits, a Poem, in Heroick Verse: With Historical Remarks and IllustrationsHenry Baldwin, 1794 - 277 pages |
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... rage ; and dove - ey'd peace Saw superstition rise , and slaughter cease . * This is no morose character of the Romans considered as a people . Sallust says , " Mihi multa agitanti , constabat , paucorum civium egregiam virtutem cuncta ...
... rage ; and dove - ey'd peace Saw superstition rise , and slaughter cease . * This is no morose character of the Romans considered as a people . Sallust says , " Mihi multa agitanti , constabat , paucorum civium egregiam virtutem cuncta ...
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... rage , and felt it but to mourn . Chas'd by the rabble from the factious town , Nor shelter'd by his name's deserv'd renown , 300 See Coriolanus to his foes repair , Excite their fury , and conduct the war . " Dire as a comet in th ...
... rage , and felt it but to mourn . Chas'd by the rabble from the factious town , Nor shelter'd by his name's deserv'd renown , 300 See Coriolanus to his foes repair , Excite their fury , and conduct the war . " Dire as a comet in th ...
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... rage , expires . " Thus ever , when opposing duties meet , 315 319 And adverse interests make one breast their seat , By both distracted , and to neither true , Passion precedes , and ruin must ensue . Never had Rome a braver soldier ...
... rage , expires . " Thus ever , when opposing duties meet , 315 319 And adverse interests make one breast their seat , By both distracted , and to neither true , Passion precedes , and ruin must ensue . Never had Rome a braver soldier ...
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... rage the nobles try'd ; " Let us be consuls , " still the people cry'd . Increasing zeal increasing numbers found ; The forum rent , return'd no second sound . At length , the weary chiefs , o'erpower'd , retreat , Desert their tower ...
... rage the nobles try'd ; " Let us be consuls , " still the people cry'd . Increasing zeal increasing numbers found ; The forum rent , return'd no second sound . At length , the weary chiefs , o'erpower'd , retreat , Desert their tower ...
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... rage and shame , proscrib'd , he fled : Thus chas'd from Rome by conquering Sylla's sway , * All night in cold Minturnum's marsh he lay ; 840 ' Till naked , hungry , from the quagmire's mud Defil'd he crept , to search for needful food ...
... rage and shame , proscrib'd , he fled : Thus chas'd from Rome by conquering Sylla's sway , * All night in cold Minturnum's marsh he lay ; 840 ' Till naked , hungry , from the quagmire's mud Defil'd he crept , to search for needful food ...
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