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XXI . Une pierre attestant le nom , le sexe et l'âge , Une informe élégie , où le
rustique sage Par des textes sacrés nous enseigne à mourir , Implorent du
passant le tribut d'un soupir . XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes confind
XXI .
XXI . Une pierre attestant le nom , le sexe et l'âge , Une informe élégie , où le
rustique sage Par des textes sacrés nous enseigne à mourir , Implorent du
passant le tribut d'un soupir . XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes confind
XXI .
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XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes confind ; Forbad to wade through
slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind . 1 Γνάσιον
έγκρύπτειν το πάθος και αλαθέα γνωμάν , ,. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd
alone The ...
XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes confind ; Forbad to wade through
slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind . 1 Γνάσιον
έγκρύπτειν το πάθος και αλαθέα γνωμάν , ,. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd
alone The ...
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Μοίραι επεκλωσαντ ' αρεταίς ουχ ίλεαι αυτών Φυoμέναις , μη δραν πόχ ' όμως
αθέμιστα δίδoισαι : Εκ φόνω ου τιμάν , κρατεράν τε τυραννίδα κτάσθαι , Και γένει
ανθρώπων σπείρειν κακά νηλεϊ θυμώ , , XVII . Præscripsit fines quamvis virtutibus
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Μοίραι επεκλωσαντ ' αρεταίς ουχ ίλεαι αυτών Φυoμέναις , μη δραν πόχ ' όμως
αθέμιστα δίδoισαι : Εκ φόνω ου τιμάν , κρατεράν τε τυραννίδα κτάσθαι , Και γένει
ανθρώπων σπείρειν κακά νηλεϊ θυμώ , , XVII . Præscripsit fines quamvis virtutibus
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Editor | John Martin |
| Publisher | John Van Voorst, 1839 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2004 |
| Length | 64 pages |
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