The Works of Virgil: Tr. Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow, with the Latin Text and Order of Construction on the Same Page; and Critical, Historical, Geographical and Classical Notes, from the Best Commentators, Both Ancient and Modern, Beside a Very Great Number of Notes Entirely New. For the Use of Schools, as Well as of Private GentlemenJoseph Davidson, 1792 |
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... Death , and poffeffed himself of the History . Throne for thirty Years , is a Succeffion of feven Between Eneas and Dida , continues he , ac- Kings . This Ithebalus he finds to be the fame cording to the lowest Computation , are at ...
... Death , and poffeffed himself of the History . Throne for thirty Years , is a Succeffion of feven Between Eneas and Dida , continues he , ac- Kings . This Ithebalus he finds to be the fame cording to the lowest Computation , are at ...
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... death of Solomon , the Year ron ( in the Time of the Argonautic pedition ) before our vulgar Era 904 ; and the Year of as nearly , he fays , as can be deterned from Dido's building Carthage to the year 883 , i . e . the coarfe ...
... death of Solomon , the Year ron ( in the Time of the Argonautic pedition ) before our vulgar Era 904 ; and the Year of as nearly , he fays , as can be deterned from Dido's building Carthage to the year 883 , i . e . the coarfe ...
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... Death , the Source of all her Woes ; for now the is neither in- fluenced by confcious Worth , nor Senfe of Shame , nor is fhe now ftudious to carry on clandeftine Love ; what she has done she openly avows , calls it Marriage , The ...
... Death , the Source of all her Woes ; for now the is neither in- fluenced by confcious Worth , nor Senfe of Shame , nor is fhe now ftudious to carry on clandeftine Love ; what she has done she openly avows , calls it Marriage , The ...
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... Death had fealed . Aided by this , he manages the Winds , on whofe Wings he flies , and fkims along the thick condenfed Clouds . And now in his Flight he fpies the Top and lofty Sides of flinty Atlas , who with his Summit props the Sky ...
... Death had fealed . Aided by this , he manages the Winds , on whofe Wings he flies , and fkims along the thick condenfed Clouds . And now in his Flight he fpies the Top and lofty Sides of flinty Atlas , who with his Summit props the Sky ...
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... Death detain thy Flight ? Nay , fuch is your Impatience to Leave me , that you rigg out your Fleet even in the rigorous Wintry feafon , and hafte to launch into the Deep amidst the roaring North - winds , ah , barbarous Man ! what ...
... Death detain thy Flight ? Nay , fuch is your Impatience to Leave me , that you rigg out your Fleet even in the rigorous Wintry feafon , and hafte to launch into the Deep amidst the roaring North - winds , ah , barbarous Man ! what ...
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