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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... Grecian camp to ranfom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The prieft being refused , and infolently difmiffed by Agamemnon , entreats for vengeance from his God , who inflects a peftilence ...
... Grecian camp to ranfom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The prieft being refused , and infolently difmiffed by Agamemnon , entreats for vengeance from his God , who inflects a peftilence ...
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... Grecian hearts to wound ; Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound ; Breathing revenge , a fudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the ...
... Grecian hearts to wound ; Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound ; Breathing revenge , a fudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the ...
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... Grecian hearts . A prophet then , infpir'd by Heaven , arose , And points the crime , and thence derives the woes . Myself the first th ' affembled chiefs incline Tavert the vengeance of the power divine ; Then rifing in his wrath , the ...
... Grecian hearts . A prophet then , infpir'd by Heaven , arose , And points the crime , and thence derives the woes . Myself the first th ' affembled chiefs incline Tavert the vengeance of the power divine ; Then rifing in his wrath , the ...
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... Grecian blood to drench the plain , And glut his vengeance with my people flain . Then thus the God : Oh reftlefs ... Grecian camp and upon the fea - fhore ; toward the end it removes to Troy . Now pleafing fleep had feal'd each ...
... Grecian blood to drench the plain , And glut his vengeance with my people flain . Then thus the God : Oh reftlefs ... Grecian camp and upon the fea - fhore ; toward the end it removes to Troy . Now pleafing fleep had feal'd each ...
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... Grecian race , With thame deferting , heap with vile disgrace . Not fuch at Argos was their generous vow , Once all their voice , but , ah ! forgotten now : Ne'er to return , was then the common cry , Till Troy's proud ftructures fhould ...
... Grecian race , With thame deferting , heap with vile disgrace . Not fuch at Argos was their generous vow , Once all their voice , but , ah ! forgotten now : Ne'er to return , was then the common cry , Till Troy's proud ftructures fhould ...
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