The Rambler. ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, B. Collins, T. Longman, B. Law [and 17 others in London], 1784 - 1796 |
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... OVID . Our cares ; conceal'd they gather tenfold rage . F. LEWIS . T is common to distinguish men by the names of animals which they are supposed to resem- ble . Thus a hero is frequently termed a lion , and and a statesman a fox , an ...
... OVID . Our cares ; conceal'd they gather tenfold rage . F. LEWIS . T is common to distinguish men by the names of animals which they are supposed to resem- ble . Thus a hero is frequently termed a lion , and and a statesman a fox , an ...
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... OVID . Now would I mount his car , whose bounteous hand First sow'd with teeming seed the furrow'd land : Now to Medæa's dragons fix my reins , I That swiftly bore her from Corinthion plains ; Now on Dadalian waxen pinions stray , Or ...
... OVID . Now would I mount his car , whose bounteous hand First sow'd with teeming seed the furrow'd land : Now to Medæa's dragons fix my reins , I That swiftly bore her from Corinthion plains ; Now on Dadalian waxen pinions stray , Or ...
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... OVID The dreadful wrinkles when poor Helen spy'd , Ah ! why this fecond rape ? -with tears fhe cry'd . Time , thou devourer , and thou envious age , Who all destroy with keen corroding rage , Beneath your jaws , whate'er have pleas'd or ...
... OVID The dreadful wrinkles when poor Helen spy'd , Ah ! why this fecond rape ? -with tears fhe cry'd . Time , thou devourer , and thou envious age , Who all destroy with keen corroding rage , Beneath your jaws , whate'er have pleas'd or ...
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... OVID . Excelling brafs , but more excell'd by gold . DRYDEN . ESIOD , in his celebrated diftribution of HE mankind , divides them into three orders of intellect . " The first place , " fays he , " belongs " to him that can by his own ...
... OVID . Excelling brafs , but more excell'd by gold . DRYDEN . ESIOD , in his celebrated diftribution of HE mankind , divides them into three orders of intellect . " The first place , " fays he , " belongs " to him that can by his own ...
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... OVID Why thinks the fool with childish hope to fee What neither is , nor was , nor e'er shall be ? ELPHINSTON , SIR , If To the RAMBLER . F you feel any of that compaffion , which you recommend to others , you will not disregard a cafe ...
... OVID Why thinks the fool with childish hope to fee What neither is , nor was , nor e'er shall be ? ELPHINSTON , SIR , If To the RAMBLER . F you feel any of that compaffion , which you recommend to others , you will not disregard a cafe ...
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