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--"Paradise Lost," v. 673.
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9 This truly military sentiment has been echoed by the approving voice
of many a general and statesman of antiquity. See Pliny's Panegyric
on Trajan. Silius neatly translates it,
"Turpe duci totam somno consumere noctem."
80 --The same in habit, &c.
"To whom once more the winged god appears;
His former youthful mien and shape he wears."
Dryden's Virgil, iv. 803.
81 "As bees in spring-time, when
The sun with Taurus rides,
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers
Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank,
The suburb of this straw-built citadel,
New-nibb'd with balm, expatiate and confer
Their state affairs. So thick the very crowd
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