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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 . COPLE XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes ...
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 . COPLE XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes ...
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COPLE XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes confind ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind . . Γνάσιον έγκρύπτειν το πάθος και αλαθέα γνωμάν , Γενναίας.
COPLE XVII . Their growing virtues , but their crimes confind ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind . . Γνάσιον έγκρύπτειν το πάθος και αλαθέα γνωμάν , Γενναίας.
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Μοίραι επεκλωσαντ ' αρεταίς ουχ ίλεαι αυτών Φυoμέναις , μη δράν πόχ ' όμως αθέμιστα δίδoισαι : Εκ φόνω ου τιμάν , κρατεράν τε τυραννίδα κτάσθαι , Και γένει ανθρώπων σπείρειν κακά νηλεϊ θυμώ , XVII . Præscripsit fines quamvis virtutibus ...
Μοίραι επεκλωσαντ ' αρεταίς ουχ ίλεαι αυτών Φυoμέναις , μη δράν 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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