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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... 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 fon defies , Obicures my glories , and refumes my ...
... 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 fon defies , Obicures my glories , and refumes my ...
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... race , Till , vain of mortals empty praife , he ftrove To match the feed of cloud - compelling Jove ! Too daring bard ! whofe unfuccessful pride Th ' immortal Mufes in their art defy'd . Th ' avenging Mufes of the light of day Depriv'd ...
... race , Till , vain of mortals empty praife , he ftrove To match the feed of cloud - compelling Jove ! Too daring bard ! whofe unfuccessful pride Th ' immortal Mufes in their art defy'd . Th ' avenging Mufes of the light of day Depriv'd ...
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... race ; Pelides only match'd his early charms ; 1 But few his troops , and fmall his ftrength in arms . Next thirty galleys cleave the liquid plain , 1 Of thofe Calydna's fea - girt ifles contain ; With them the youth of Nyfyrus repair ...
... race ; Pelides only match'd his early charms ; 1 But few his troops , and fmall his ftrength in arms . Next thirty galleys cleave the liquid plain , 1 Of thofe Calydna's fea - girt ifles contain ; With them the youth of Nyfyrus repair ...
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... race ) . Her in the palace , at her loom the found ; The golden web her own fad itory crown'd . The Trojan wars the weav'd ( herself the prize ) And the dire triumph of her fatal eyes . To whom the Goddefs of the painted bow ; Approach ...
... race ) . Her in the palace , at her loom the found ; The golden web her own fad itory crown'd . The Trojan wars the weav'd ( herself the prize ) And the dire triumph of her fatal eyes . To whom the Goddefs of the painted bow ; Approach ...
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... race defends : Loth as thon art to punith lawless luft , Not all the Gods are partial and unjust . The Sire whole thunder fhakes the cloudy skies Sighs from his inmoft foul , and thus replies : Oh lafting rancour ! oh infatiate hate To ...
... race defends : Loth as thon art to punith lawless luft , Not all the Gods are partial and unjust . The Sire whole thunder fhakes the cloudy skies Sighs from his inmoft foul , and thus replies : Oh lafting rancour ! oh infatiate hate To ...
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