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Adimantus Ægypt affure againſt Alexander amongſt Amphilochus Apollo aſk becauſe beft beſtow body BUYE BUYER CHARO CHRYSIP PUS confequence dead defire DIOGENES EACUS elſe fafe faid fame feems feen felf fenfes ferve feven fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft fome fomething foon ftand fuffered fufficient fuppofe fure greateſt head HERACLITUS Hercules hiftorian hiftory himſelf horſe houſe inftruction juft Jupiter juſt king laft laugh lefs Lucian Lycinus manner mean MENIP MENIPPUS MERCURY MINOS moft moſt muft muſt myſelf NEPTUNE NEREID Nireus obferve obolus occafion paffed paſs perfons philofophers pleaſe pleaſure PLUTO poffible praiſe Pray prefent PROTESILAU puniſh purpoſe PYTHAGORA queftion reaſon refpect SAMIPPUS ſay ſee ſeems ſhall ſhe SIMYLUS SOCRATES ſpeak ſuch tell thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand Thucydides Timolaus tranflation Ulyffes underſtand unleſs uſe veffel Vulcan wife wifh wiſh yourſelf
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Page 105 - Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
Page 343 - Nor ply'd the grafs, nor bent the tender grain ; And when along the level feas they flew, Scarce on the furface curl'd the briny dew; Such Erichthonius was : from him there came The facred Tros, of whom the Trojan name. 275 Three fons renown'd adorn'd his nuptial bed, Ilus, Aflaracas, and Ganymed : The matchlefs Ganymed, divinely fair.
Page 181 - Th' undaunted guard of cloud-compelling Jove. — When the bright partner of his awful reign, The warlike maid, and monarch of the main, * The traitor-gods, by mad ambition driven, 520 Durst threat with chains th...
Page 343 - Outstripp'd the winds in speed upon the plain, Flew o'er the fields, nor hurt the bearded grain : She swept the seas, and, as she skimm'd along, Her flying feet unbath'd on billows hung.
Page 100 - There is a beautiful moral couch'd in the fable of his being married to Hebe, or youth, after death : to imply, that a perpetual youth or a reputation which never grows old, is the reward of those Heroes, who like Hercules employ their courage for the good of humankind. 758. Inimitably wrought with skill divine.} This verse is not without obscurity; Eustathius gives us several interpretations of it. Mf) T6xvr|crdu6vos, nr|S
Page 231 - Now, this ceremony is so notoriously and directly transmitted to them from Paganism, that their own writers make not the least scruple to own it. The Jesuit...
Page 397 - ... beft. Thus, by not leaning to either fide, you are fure of being fafe. Above all things remember the advice which I have fo repeatedly given, not to confine your views to the praifes and honours of the preient age, but to take a far nobier and wider fcope.
Page 395 - Catlimachus, fome of wliofe works are now extant, had fuch an averfion to long and tedious works, that to him is attributed that old and true faying, a great book is a great evil. He could not therefore be the CaUiraachus here cenfured.
Page 181 - Embrace his knees, at his tribunal fall; Conjure him far to drive the Grecian train, To hurl them headlong to their fleet and main, To heap the...
Page 396 - Syracufe ; not adding one vnaeceflary word. If you think him tedious in recounting the ravages of the peftilence, do but attend to the variety and multiplicity of his matter, and you will acknowledge, that the flying pen of the hiftorian is impeded by the numerous incidents crowding upon him.