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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... toils of battle bred , In early youth my hardy days I led : Fir'd with the thirst which virtuous envy breeds , And fmit with love of honourable deeds . Strongest of men , they pierc'd the mountain boar , Rang'd the wild deferts red with ...
... toils of battle bred , In early youth my hardy days I led : Fir'd with the thirst which virtuous envy breeds , And fmit with love of honourable deeds . Strongest of men , they pierc'd the mountain boar , Rang'd the wild deferts red with ...
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... toils , Renown'd , triumphant , and enrich'd with fpoils . Now fhameful flight alone can fave the host , Our blood ... toil , they fweat , thick clouds of duft arife , The doubling clamours echo to the skies . Ev'n then the Greeks had ...
... toils , Renown'd , triumphant , and enrich'd with fpoils . Now fhameful flight alone can fave the host , Our blood ... toil , they fweat , thick clouds of duft arife , The doubling clamours echo to the skies . Ev'n then the Greeks had ...
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... toils , and doubled woes on woes . Their prayers perform'd , the chiefs the rite pnrfue The barley fprinkled , and the victim flew , The limbs they fever from th ' enclosing hide , The thighs , felected to the Gods , divide . On thefe ...
... toils , and doubled woes on woes . Their prayers perform'd , the chiefs the rite pnrfue The barley fprinkled , and the victim flew , The limbs they fever from th ' enclosing hide , The thighs , felected to the Gods , divide . On thefe ...
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... toils may cease , And Troy poffefs her fertile fields in peace ; Thus may the Greeks review their native shore , Much fai'd for generous fteeds , for beauty more . He faid . The challenge Hector heard with joy , Then with his fpear ...
... toils may cease , And Troy poffefs her fertile fields in peace ; Thus may the Greeks review their native shore , Much fai'd for generous fteeds , for beauty more . He faid . The challenge Hector heard with joy , Then with his fpear ...
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... toils at eafe , For diftant Troy refus'd to fail the feas : Perhaps their fwords fome nobler quarrel draws , Afham'd to combat in their fifter's caufe . So fpoke the fair , nor knew her brother's doom , Wrapt in the cold embraces of the ...
... toils at eafe , For diftant Troy refus'd to fail the feas : Perhaps their fwords fome nobler quarrel draws , Afham'd to combat in their fifter's caufe . So fpoke the fair , nor knew her brother's doom , Wrapt in the cold embraces of the ...
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