The Works of the English Poets: Rowe's LucanH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Æneid againſt amidſt arms Behold beneath blood bold brave breaſt Cæfar camp caufe cauſe Celtiberians chief Colchians command Corfinium courſe croud Curio death diftant dreadful earth enfigns Ev'n facred faid fame fatal fate fear feas fecret feek feems feen fhade fhall fhore fide field fierce fight fink fire firft firſt fix'd fkies flain flames flaughter flood foldier fome fons foon forfook fortune fought ftand ftill ftrong fuch fwelling fword Gaul gods hand himſelf hoftile horrid impious laft laſt Latian lefs length loft Lucan maſter moſt muſt Nero o'er paffage paſt peace Pharfalia Phocis plac'd plain Pompey Pompey's purſue rage rife riſe Roman Rome ruſh Scythian ſhade ſhall ſhore ſhould ſkies ſky ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtream Sulpitius Verulanus ſupplies ſwift taſk thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand trembling vaft vanquish'd victor Virgil waſte Whoſe winds wrath yield
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Page 68 - If dying mortals' doom they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful night: No parting souls to grisly Pluto go, Nor seek the dreary, silent, shades below; But forth they fly, immortal in their kind, And other bodies in new worlds they find. Thus life for ever runs its endless race, And, like a line, death but divides the space — A stop, which can but for a moment last, A point between the future and the past.
Page 5 - ... liberty or polite learning left in the world. Hard has been the fate of many a great genius, that while they have conferred immortality on others, they have wanted themselves some friend to embalm their names to posterity, This has been the fate of Lucan, and ]>erhaps may be that of Mr.
Page 12 - Maenas, when with ivy bridles bound, She led the spotted lynx, then Evion rung around ; Evion from woods and floods repairing echos sound.
Page 141 - To rise from earth, and spring with dusky green; With sparkling flames the trees unburning shine, And round their boles prodigious serpents twine. The pious worshippers approach not near, But shun their gods, and kneel with distant fear: The priest himself, when or the day or night Rolling have reach'd their full meridian height, Refrains the gloomy paths with wary feet, Dreading the demon of the grove to meet; Who, terrible to sight, at that fix'd hour Still treads the round about his dreary bower.
Page 49 - The vanquish'd party was by Cato own'd. Nor came the rivals equal to the field; One to increasing years began to yield; Old age came creeping in the peaceful gown, And civil functions weigh'd the soldier down...
Page 35 - The tenth book, imperfect as it is, gives us, among other things, a view of the Egyptian magnificence, with a curious account of the then received opinions of the increase and decrease of the Nile. From the variety of the story, and many other particulars I need not mention in this short account, it may easily appear, that a true history may...
Page 9 - Nero to be meant ironically; but it seems to me plain to be in the greatest earnest: and it is more than probable, that if Nero had been as wicked at that time as he became afterwards, Lucan's life had paid for his irony. Now it is agreed on...
Page 35 - I remember Montaigne, who is allowed by all to have been an admirable judge in these matters, prefers Lucan's character of Cato to Virgil, or any other of the ancient poets. He thinks all of them flat and languishing, but Lucan's much morestrong, though overthrown by the extravagancy of his own force.
Page 38 - that the fpeftators often gave him for gone, and " cried out now and then, he was tumbling." Thus Strada. I fhall fum up all I have time to fay of Lucan, with another...
Page 142 - Massilians, from th' encompass'd wall, Rejoiced to see the sylvan honours fall : They hope such power can never prosper long, Nor think the patient gods will bear the wrong. The...