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Abradates affiftance Affyrian afterwards againſt alfo alſo anfwered ARISTOMENES arms army Artaphernes Athenians Athens Babylon becauſe befides brother caufed cauſe chariots cloſe Colchis command confiderable confifted Cyaxares CYRUS DARIUS death defign defired Devizes ditto Egypt Egyptians enemy engaged expedition faid fame fays fecure feems fent ferve fervice fettled feven feveral fhall fhewed fhips fhould fide fince firft firſt flain fome foon ftate ftill fubjects fuch fuffer furprize gave GELON Gobryas Greeks HERCULES himſelf honor horfe horſe hundred huſband ifland inftructions king Lacedæmonians laft laws LYCURGUS mafter manner marched Medes Meffenians moft moſt Myrcinus neceffary obferved occafion Otanes paffed Perfians perfon Pififtratus Plutarch poffible prefent prince purpoſe raiſed reafon refolved refpect reft SAPPHO Sardis Scythians ſhe Smerdis SOLON Spartans temple thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand Thrace troops uſe whofe Wilts
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Page 30 - I do not know by the character that is given of her works, whether it is not for the benefit of mankind that they are lost. They were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous to have given them a reading.
Page 34 - My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Page 38 - Cyrus was twelve years old, his mother Mandane took him with her into Media, to his grandfather Astyages, who, from the many things he had heard said in favour of that young prince, had a great desire to see him.
Page 10 - Nimrod's subjects, and confounding their language, deprived him of the greater part of his people, and plagued those who adhered to him by swarms of gnats, which destroyed almost all of them ; and one of those gnats having entered into the nostril or ear of Nimrod, penetrated to one of the membranes of his brain, where, growing bigger every day, it gave him such intolerable pain that he was obliged to cause his head to be beaten with a mallet in order to procure some ease, which torture he suffered...
Page 29 - One may see by what is left of them that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without descending to those little points, conceits, and turns of wit with which many of our modern lyrics are so miserably infected.
Page 34 - TDLESS'D as th' immortal gods is he, -*-' The youth who fondly fits by thee, And hears and fees thee all the while, Softly fpeak and fweetly fmile. 'Twas this...
Page 133 - For, drain'd the springs of wealth,- Corruption there Lay wither'd at the root. Thrice happy land ! Had not neglected Art, with weedy Vice Confounded, sunk.
Page 79 - Nitocris, with orders, at an appointed time, to break down the great bank, which was between the lake and the canal, and to turn the whole current into the lake. At the fame time he appointed one body of troops at the place where the river entered...
Page 133 - Public all, And at its table fed; for that they toil'd, For that they liv'd entire, and even for that The tender mother urg'd her son to die.
Page 78 - ... with a large and deep ditch, reckoning that, if all communication with the country were cut off, the more people there were within the city the fooner they would be obliged to furrender. That...