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Aeneid of Virgil, The
Virgil. Translated by John Dryden

Number of quotes: 1


Book ID: 435 Page: 217/218

Section: 1B

Let others better mould the running mass

Of metals, and inform the breathing brass,

And soften into flesh a marble face;

Plead better at the bar; describe the skies,

And when the stars descend and when they rise.

But Rome! ՚tis thine alone, with awful sway,

To rule mankind, and make the world obey,

Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way;

To tame the proud, the fetter’d slave to free―

These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.”

Quote ID: 8778

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