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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... turn in the paraphrafe . Perhaps the mixture of fome Græcifms and old words , after the manner of Milton , if done with- out too much affectation , might not have an ill effect in a verfion of this particular work , which moft of any ...
... turn in the paraphrafe . Perhaps the mixture of fome Græcifms and old words , after the manner of Milton , if done with- out too much affectation , might not have an ill effect in a verfion of this particular work , which moft of any ...
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... turns their steps from flight , And wakes anew the dying flames of fight . They turn , they stand , the Greeks their fury dare , Condense their powers , and wait the growing war . As when , on Ceres ' facred floor the fwain Spreads the ...
... turns their steps from flight , And wakes anew the dying flames of fight . They turn , they stand , the Greeks their fury dare , Condense their powers , and wait the growing war . As when , on Ceres ' facred floor the fwain Spreads the ...
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... turn'd from fight His flying courfer , funk to endless night : A broken rock by Neftor's fon was thrown ; His bended arm receiv'd the falling stone . From his numb'd hands the ivory - itudded reins , Dropt in the duft , are trail'd ...
... turn'd from fight His flying courfer , funk to endless night : A broken rock by Neftor's fon was thrown ; His bended arm receiv'd the falling stone . From his numb'd hands the ivory - itudded reins , Dropt in the duft , are trail'd ...
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... turn the doubtful day . The Thracian Acamas his faulchion found , And hew'd th ' enormous giant to the ground ; His thundering arm a deadly ftroke impreft Where the black horfe - hair nodded o'er his creft : Fis'd in his front the ...
... turn the doubtful day . The Thracian Acamas his faulchion found , And hew'd th ' enormous giant to the ground ; His thundering arm a deadly ftroke impreft Where the black horfe - hair nodded o'er his creft : Fis'd in his front the ...
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... turn and fave from Hector's direful rage The glory of the Greeks , the Pylian fage . His fruitless words are loft unheard in air , Ulyffes feeks the ships , and shelters there . But bold Tydides to the refcue goes , A fingle warrior ...
... turn and fave from Hector's direful rage The glory of the Greeks , the Pylian fage . His fruitless words are loft unheard in air , Ulyffes feeks the ships , and shelters there . But bold Tydides to the refcue goes , A fingle warrior ...
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Achilles Agamemnon Ajax Antilochus arms Atrides band beneath blood bold brave breaft chariot chief counfels courfers crown'd dart death defcends diftant Diomed divine dreadful duft Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fame fate feaft feas fhade fhall fhining fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filver fire firft fkies flain flames flew flies fome forrows foul fpear fpoke ftand fteeds ftern ftill fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand heart Heaven Hector hero hoft honours Idomeneus Ilion immortal javelin Jove king laft lance loft Lycian Menelaus mighty monarch mortal muft Neftor numbers o'er Pallas Patroclus Peleus plain Priam prince Pylian race rage reft rife ſhall ſhore Simoïs ſkies ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Telemachus thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes vafe veffels walls warrior whofe woes wound youth