A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey. West's Pindar. Dryden's Virgil. Persius & Juvenal. Pitt's Aeneid. Rowe's LucanJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1792 |
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... fall , by too fevere a doom ; Sure , to fo fhort a race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn : Honour and fame at least the Thunderer ow'd , And ill he pays the promise of a God ; If von proud monarch thus thy ...
... fall , by too fevere a doom ; Sure , to fo fhort a race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn : Honour and fame at least the Thunderer ow'd , And ill he pays the promise of a God ; If von proud monarch thus thy ...
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... fall . Swift as the word the vain illusion fled , Defcends , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ; Cloth'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wisdom , and rever'd for age ; Around his temples spreads his golden wing , And thus ...
... fall . Swift as the word the vain illusion fled , Defcends , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ; Cloth'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wisdom , and rever'd for age ; Around his temples spreads his golden wing , And thus ...
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... fall : He thakes the feeble props of human trust , And towns and armies humbles to the duft . What thame to Greece a fruitles war to wage , Oh , laiting fhame in every future age ! Once great in arms , the common fcorn we grow , Repuls ...
... fall : He thakes the feeble props of human trust , And towns and armies humbles to the duft . What thame to Greece a fruitles war to wage , Oh , laiting fhame in every future age ! Once great in arms , the common fcorn we grow , Repuls ...
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... fall te haughty towers of Troy But Jove forbids , who plunges those he hates In ferce custention and in vain debates . Now great Achilles from our aid withdraws , By me provok'd ; a captive maid the caufe : If e'er as friends we join ...
... fall te haughty towers of Troy But Jove forbids , who plunges those he hates In ferce custention and in vain debates . Now great Achilles from our aid withdraws , By me provok'd ; a captive maid the caufe : If e'er as friends we join ...
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... fall with easy art ; Melting they fall , and fink into the heart ! Wondering we hear , and fix'd in deep surprise ; Our ears refute the cenfure of our eyes . The king then afk'd ( as yet the camp he view'd ) What chief is that , with ...
... fall with easy art ; Melting they fall , and fink into the heart ! Wondering we hear , and fix'd in deep surprise ; Our ears refute the cenfure of our eyes . The king then afk'd ( as yet the camp he view'd ) What chief is that , with ...
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