The Pharsalia of LucanLongmans, Green, and Company, 1905 - 334 sayfa |
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Æneid ancient arms battle battle of Thapsus bear beneath bids billows blood Book breast Brutus Cæsar camp Catiline Cato chief civil comrades conquered Consul crime Curio dared dead death deeds deep defeat doom dost dread earth Egypt Epirus fall fame fatal fates fear fell fields fierce fight fire flame fled fleet Fortune Francken Gaul gave gaze gods hand heart heaven Herodotus hope host impious king land Latian Lesbos Libyan limbs Lucan Magnus Marius Massilia mighty neath night Nile o'er ocean Parthian peace perished Pharian Pharsalia Pindus plain Plutarch Pompeius Pothinus prayer pyre rage Roman Rome ruin rushed sands Scythian seek seized Senate shade shame ships shore sire slain slaughter soldiers sought soul spake stars stood stream strike swift sword thee Thessalian Thessaly thine thou Thracian tomb trembling triumph troops Twas victory voice walls waves wind wound
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Sayfa 259 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Sayfa 138 - As for the writer who attributes the phenomenon to the ocean, his account is involved in such obscurity, that it is impossible to disprove it by argument. For my part I know of no river called Ocean, and I think that Homer, or one of the earlier poets, invented the name, and introduced it into his poetry.
Sayfa 169 - HAG I have been all day looking after A raven feeding upon a quarter; And soon as she turned her beak to the south, I snatched this morsel out of her mouth. 2ND HAG I have been gathering wolves...
Sayfa ix - That o'er the others like an eagle soars. When they together short discourse had held, They turn'd to me, with salutation kind Beckoning me ; at the which my master smiled : Nor was this all; but greater honour still They gave me, for they made me of their tribe; And I was sixth amid so learn'da band. Far as the luminous beacon on we pass'd, Speaking of matters, then befitting well To speak, now fitter left untold.
Sayfa 281 - Thetis, bright image of eternity! When thou didst cry, "Insufferable might! God! Spare me! I sustain not the quick flames, The penetrating presence; all my being, Like him whom the Numidian seps did thaw Into a dew with poison, is dissolved, Sinking through its foundations...
Sayfa 194 - And all her children; yet they hate the most Those whom they know. My fate is in the hands Of you, mine own true soldiers, proved in all The wars we fought in Gallia. When the sword Of each of you shall strike, I know the hand: The javelin's flight to me betrays the arm That launched it hurtling: and to-day once more I see the faces stern, the threatening eyes, Unfailing proofs of victory to come. E'en now the battle rushes on my sight; Kings trodden down and scattered senators Fill all th' ensanguined...
Sayfa 194 - I tremble not with terror, but with hope, As the great day reveals its coming scope : Never in earlier days, our hearts to cheer, Have such bright gifts of Heaven been brought so near; Nor ever has been kept the aspiring soul By space so narrow from so grand a goal.
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