The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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... fair and flows well , t Tiber whose royal floods are Roman and excel ! I make no doubt but Sir John Denham whetted his imagination by the above lines of Dionyfius , before he made those famous verfes upon the Thames . * But the finest ...
... fair and flows well , t Tiber whose royal floods are Roman and excel ! I make no doubt but Sir John Denham whetted his imagination by the above lines of Dionyfius , before he made those famous verfes upon the Thames . * But the finest ...
Page xx
... 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 .
... 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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... fair , With patience braves the wintry air , Whether his blood - hounds , ftaunch and keen , The hind have in the covert seen , Or wild boar of the Marfian breed , From the round - twifted cords is freed . PROSE INTERPRETATION ...
... fair , With patience braves the wintry air , Whether his blood - hounds , ftaunch and keen , The hind have in the covert seen , Or wild boar of the Marfian breed , From the round - twifted cords is freed . PROSE INTERPRETATION ...
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... Fair Salamis a doubtful name fhall hold , " O brave companions , O my faithful few ! " Ye that with me have harder things endur'd , " Than all the evils which ye now sustain , " This day your grief and care with wine be cur'd , " To ...
... Fair Salamis a doubtful name fhall hold , " O brave companions , O my faithful few ! " Ye that with me have harder things endur'd , " Than all the evils which ye now sustain , " This day your grief and care with wine be cur'd , " To ...
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... fair Leuconoe , Or what they fix for me . Nor your Chaldean books confult , But chearfully fubmit , ( How much a better thought it is ? ) To what the Gods think fit . Whether more winters on our head They fhall command to low'r , Or ...
... fair Leuconoe , Or what they fix for me . Nor your Chaldean books confult , But chearfully fubmit , ( How much a better thought it is ? ) To what the Gods think fit . Whether more winters on our head They fhall command to low'r , Or ...
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