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... Marcus dy'd , And Cato told the gods , I'm fatisfy'd . See ! how your lays the British youth inflame ! They long to fhoot and ripen into fame ; Applauding theatres difturb their rest , And unhorn Cato's heave in every breaft ; Their ...
... Marcus dy'd , And Cato told the gods , I'm fatisfy'd . See ! how your lays the British youth inflame ! They long to fhoot and ripen into fame ; Applauding theatres difturb their rest , And unhorn Cato's heave in every breaft ; Their ...
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... Marcus new in early death appears , While Cato counts his wounds , and not his years ; Who , checking private grief , the public mourns , Commands the pity he fo greatly fcorns ; But when he strikes ( to crown his generous part ) That ...
... Marcus new in early death appears , While Cato counts his wounds , and not his years ; Who , checking private grief , the public mourns , Commands the pity he fo greatly fcorns ; But when he strikes ( to crown his generous part ) That ...
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... MARCUS , DECIUS , Ambaffador from Cæfar . Mr. BoWMAN . Mutineers , Guards , & c . WOMEN . MARCIA , Daughter to Cato . Mrs. OLDFIELD . LUCIA , Daughter to Lucius . Mrs. PORTER . SCENE , a large Hall in the Governor's Palace of Utica . CA ...
... MARCUS , DECIUS , Ambaffador from Cæfar . Mr. BoWMAN . Mutineers , Guards , & c . WOMEN . MARCIA , Daughter to Cato . Mrs. OLDFIELD . LUCIA , Daughter to Lucius . Mrs. PORTER . SCENE , a large Hall in the Governor's Palace of Utica . CA ...
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... MARCUS . Thy teddy temper , Portius , Can look on guilt , rebellion , fraud , and Cæfar , In the calm lights of mild philofophy ; I'm tortur'd , ev'n to madness , when I think On the proud victor : every time he ' s nam'd Pharfalia ...
... MARCUS . Thy teddy temper , Portius , Can look on guilt , rebellion , fraud , and Cæfar , In the calm lights of mild philofophy ; I'm tortur'd , ev'n to madness , when I think On the proud victor : every time he ' s nam'd Pharfalia ...
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... Marcus , ' tis an impious greatness , And mixt with too much horror to be envy'd : How does the luftre of our father's actions , Through the dark cloud of ills that cover him , Break out , and burn with more triumphant brightness ! His ...
... Marcus , ' tis an impious greatness , And mixt with too much horror to be envy'd : How does the luftre of our father's actions , Through the dark cloud of ills that cover him , Break out , and burn with more triumphant brightness ! His ...
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Aëre æther arms aſk atque behold beſt blood bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe CYCNUS death DECIUS defcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays fecret fenate fhall fhining fight fire firſt fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuccefs fuch fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf itſelf Jove JUBA laft laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid Marcia Marcus mighty moſt muſt myſelf numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure Poet Portius praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reft reſt rife rifu riſe Roman Rome SEMPRONIUS ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtreams Syphax tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thoughts thouſand thunder verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue waſte Whilft youth САТО
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Page 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 329 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 330 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 45 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Page 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Page 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Page 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Page 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Page 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Page 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.