Lucan's Pharsalia, Volume 1J. Tonson, 1722 - Epic poetry, Latin |
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Page 41 - 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 xxx - But there is one furprifing inftance more, of the prodigious greatnefs of the Roman power, in the affair of king Antiochus, and that long before the height it arrived to, at the breaking forth of the civil war. That prince was...
Page 273 - And wonder'st what the gods and Fortune mean : But artfully their bounties thus they raise, And from my danger arrogate new praise : Amidst the fears of death they bid me live, And still enhance what they are sure to give.*'*
Page iv - As he grew up, his parents educated him with a care that became a promising genius and the rank of his family. His masters were Rhemmius Polaemon, the grammarian; then Flavius Virginius, the rhetorician: and lastly, Cornutus, the stoic philosopher, to which sect he ever after addicted himself. It was in the...
Page 71 - And cropt the wailing infant at his birth. (Can innocents the rage of parties know, And they who ne'er offended find a foe?) Age is no plea, and childhood no defence, To kill is all the murderer's pretence. Rage stays not to inquire who ought to die, Numbers must fall, no matter which, or why; Each in his hand a grisly visage bears, And as the trophy of his virtue wears. [streets, Who wants a prize, straight rushes thro...
Page 9 - Nature shall approve thy choice. But oh! whatever be thy godhead great, Fix not in regions too remote thy seat; Nor deign thou near the frozen Bear to shine, Nor where the sultry southern stars decline; Less kindly thence thy influence shall come, And thy blest rays obliquely visit Rome.
Page 239 - In loud applause the pleas'd assembly join, And to the glorious task the chief assign: His country's fate they trust to him alone, And bid him fight Rome's battles, and his own. Next, to their friends their thanks are dealt around. And some with gifts, and some with praise are crown'd : Of these the chief are Rhodes, by Phosbus lovM, And Sparta rough, in virtue's lore approv'd. Of Athens much they speak; Massilia's aid Is with her parent Phocis
Page 273 - Thou know'st not I am he to whom 'tis given Never to want the care of watchful heaven. Obedient fortune waits my humble thrall, And, always ready, comes before I call. Let winds, and seas, loud wars at freedom wage, And waste upon themselves their empty rage ; A stronger, mightier dromon is thy friend, Thou and thy bark on Cesar's fate depend.
Page 16 - Twas not the fame of what he once had been, Or tales in old records and annals seen; But 'twas a valour, restless, unconfined, Which no success could sate, nor limits bind; 'Twas shame, a soldier's shame, untaught to yield.
Page 149 - The baleful yew, though dead, has oft been seen 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...