The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volume 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... Augustus Cæsar ; that he was extracted from an ancient family of Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune ; that he was designed to the study of the law , and had made considerable progress in it ...
... Augustus Cæsar ; that he was extracted from an ancient family of Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune ; that he was designed to the study of the law , and had made considerable progress in it ...
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... Augustus , whom they think he celebrates under the name of Corinna in his Elegies . But he 4 Vide Martial . lib . xi . epigr . 21 . 5 This notion , as Bayle has observed , is very ancient , be- ing suggested by Sidonius Apollinaris ...
... Augustus , whom they think he celebrates under the name of Corinna in his Elegies . But he 4 Vide Martial . lib . xi . epigr . 21 . 5 This notion , as Bayle has observed , is very ancient , be- ing suggested by Sidonius Apollinaris ...
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... Augustus A. U. C. 752 , nine years before Ovid's banishment , which took place in the year of Rome , 761 . From her daughter indeed , the younger Julia , who was banished in the fame year with Ovid , and died twenty years afterwards ...
... Augustus A. U. C. 752 , nine years before Ovid's banishment , which took place in the year of Rome , 761 . From her daughter indeed , the younger Julia , who was banished in the fame year with Ovid , and died twenty years afterwards ...
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... Augustus committing incest with his daughter , was long since suggested by the Jesuit Brièt , and the Abbé Marolles ; and Bayle informs us , that this circumstance is mentioned in a Latin fragment of Cecilius Minutianus Apuleius ...
... Augustus committing incest with his daughter , was long since suggested by the Jesuit Brièt , and the Abbé Marolles ; and Bayle informs us , that this circumstance is mentioned in a Latin fragment of Cecilius Minutianus Apuleius ...
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... Augustus was of a nature too vindicative to have contented himself with so small a revenge , or so unsafe to himself , as that of simple banishment , and would certainly have secured his crimes from publick notice by the death of him ...
... Augustus was of a nature too vindicative to have contented himself with so small a revenge , or so unsafe to himself , as that of simple banishment , and would certainly have secured his crimes from publick notice by the death of him ...
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