This oracle gave occasion to Lucan to put great sentiments in the mouth of Cato.

Lucan, and others, Plutarch accounts for the cause of it, either that the benefits of the gods are not eternal, as themselves are; or that the genii who presided over oracles, are subject to death; or that the exhalations of the earth had been exhausted.

(45) In 'the unapparent' he was welcomed by Chatterton, Sidney, Lucan, and (46) many more immortals, and was hailed as the master of a 'kingless sphere' in a 'heaven of song.'

[Lucan]. 309.

Lucan. 5993.

Though it was accepted as Vergilian by Renaissance readers simply because the manuscripts of the poem and ancient writers, from Lucan and Statius to Martial and Suetonius, all attribute the work to him, recent critics have usually been skeptical or downright recusant.

Vergil was then twenty-one years of agenearing his twenty-second birthdayand we may perhaps assume in Donatus' attribution of the Culex to Vergil's sixteenth year a mistake in some early manuscript which changed the original XXI to XVI, a correction which the citations of Statius and Lucan favor.

The banal rhetorical training might indeed have made a Lucan or a Juvenal out of him had he not finally revolted so decisively.

Surely Vergil was gifted with as much critical acumen as Lucan.

Lucan, who was an Injudicious Poet, lets drop his Story very frequently for the sake of his unnecessary Digressions, or his Diverticula, as Scaliger calls them.

Of Lucan, as an example of the contrary practice, Hobbes said in his Discourse concerning the Virtues of an Heroic Poem: No Heroic Poem raises such admiration of the Poet, as his hath done, though not so great admiration of the persons he introduceth.]

To such an oak Lucan compared Pompey in his declining state.

They who think otherwise would, by the same reason, prefer Lucan and Ovid to Homer and Virgil, and Martial to all four of them.

"Rowe's Lucan, B. ix, l. 1636.

314; history reduced to four lines, i. 5, n. 1; at Lady Lucan's, iii. 425, n. 3; monument, iv.

187, n. 1; Lucan's, Lady, bluestocking meeting, iii. 425, n. 3; Lyttelton, first Lord, i. 267, n. 2; Lyttelton, second Lord, iv.

'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice' (Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv.

Concordia discors.' Lucan.

I am just undertaking an edition of Lucan, my friend Mr. Bentley having in his possession his father's notes and emendations on the first seven books.

I don't think that a good or bad taste in poetry is of so serious a nature, that I should be afraid of owning too, that, with that great judge Corneille, and with that, perhaps, no judge Heinsius, I prefer Lucan to Virgil.

There are hemistichs in Lucan that go to one's soul and one's heart;for a mere epic poem, a fabulous tissue of uninteresting battles that don't teach one even to fight, I know nothing more tedious.

My Lucan appears to-morrow; I must say it is a noble volume.

The dash and skill of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, backed by Irish desperation, won the day.

Here also fellsaddest loss of allPatrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, brave, resourceful, a true unfaltering-soldier and lover of his country.

A grandson of Rory O'More, Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, was the most distinguished commander of Irish armies who opposed, in Ireland, the forces of William of Orange.