The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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... the magiftrate prefers Things honeft to his private ends , And bribing villains with a look deters , And draws against the crowd , and his fair fame defends . And And lastly what elegance and ftrokes of the mafter here XX PREFACE .
... the magiftrate prefers Things honeft to his private ends , And bribing villains with a look deters , And draws against the crowd , and his fair fame defends . And And lastly what elegance and ftrokes of the mafter here XX PREFACE .
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... against the hallowed towers , he hath alarmed the city . He hath alarmed the nations , left the grievous age of Pyrrha , murmuring about ftrange monsters , fhould return ; when Proteus drove all his herd to vifit the high mountains ...
... against the hallowed towers , he hath alarmed the city . He hath alarmed the nations , left the grievous age of Pyrrha , murmuring about ftrange monsters , fhould return ; when Proteus drove all his herd to vifit the high mountains ...
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... against themselves , with which it had been better that the vexatious Perfians had fallen ; they shall hear of our civil fights . Which of the gods fhall the people invoke to the affairs of the finking empire ? With what prayer shall ...
... against themselves , with which it had been better that the vexatious Perfians had fallen ; they shall hear of our civil fights . Which of the gods fhall the people invoke to the affairs of the finking empire ? With what prayer shall ...
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... ( Against the Perfians had been well ) And all our broils fhall hear . What pow'r to fave her finking name Shall Rome invoke , what urgent suit Shall Vefta's holy virgin's frame In hymns that bear no fruit . What worthy , for the nation's ...
... ( Against the Perfians had been well ) And all our broils fhall hear . What pow'r to fave her finking name Shall Rome invoke , what urgent suit Shall Vefta's holy virgin's frame In hymns that bear no fruit . What worthy , for the nation's ...
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... against their bloody enemy , are pleafing : or if thou , the winged fon of fostering Maia , with thy figure changed , perfonate a young man upon earth , content to be ftiled the avenger of Cæfar . Late mayeft thou return to hea- ven ...
... against their bloody enemy , are pleafing : or if thou , the winged fon of fostering Maia , with thy figure changed , perfonate a young man upon earth , content to be ftiled the avenger of Cæfar . Late mayeft thou return to hea- ven ...
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