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'' | <p>drag Hector along, but the body which was Hector's. here<lb/> | ||
comes another that <sic>wont</sic> let his Mother sleep. "Mother,<lb/> | |||
"I call you, thou who sleepest secure from care, nor pitiest<lb/> | |||
"thy Son; arise and bury me." these things being sung<lb/> | |||
with such forced and piteous gestures so as to make the<lb/> | |||
whole theatre sad; it is no wonder that those who lie<lb/> | |||
unburied are thought to be miserable: " before the wild<lb/> | |||
beasts and birds:" — he feared his limbs might not be so<lb/> | |||
well used when torn; yet he did not fear to have —<lb/> | |||
them burnt. " do not thus suffer what ermains of me to<lb/> | |||
be stript off my bones, to be consumed and polluted —<lb/> | |||
with black gore." I do not understand what he is afraid<lb/> | |||
of; that makes such good Hebdometer verses, it is to be<lb/> | |||
understood then, that people should not be ancious about<lb/> | |||
the treatment of their bodies after death, <sic>tho'</sic> many punish<lb/> | |||
their Enemies even when they are dead. Ennius in —<lb/> | |||
notable verses makes Thyestes imprecate dreadful<lb/> | |||
curses upon Atreus wishing that he might perish —<lb/> | |||
in a shipwreck; that would be a terrible thing to be —<lb/> | |||
drag Hector along, but the body which was Hector's. here
comes another that wont let his Mother sleep. "Mother,
"I call you, thou who sleepest secure from care, nor pitiest
"thy Son; arise and bury me." these things being sung
with such forced and piteous gestures so as to make the
whole theatre sad; it is no wonder that those who lie
unburied are thought to be miserable: " before the wild
beasts and birds:" — he feared his limbs might not be so
well used when torn; yet he did not fear to have —
them burnt. " do not thus suffer what ermains of me to
be stript off my bones, to be consumed and polluted —
with black gore." I do not understand what he is afraid
of; that makes such good Hebdometer verses, it is to be
understood then, that people should not be ancious about
the treatment of their bodies after death, tho' many punish
their Enemies even when they are dead. Ennius in —
notable verses makes Thyestes imprecate dreadful
curses upon Atreus wishing that he might perish —
in a shipwreck; that would be a terrible thing to be —
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Identifier: | JB/537/116/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537. |
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1761-01-27 |
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537 |
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116 |
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Copy/fair sheet |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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