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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... Troy without his affiftance , but fears the army was difcouraged by his abfence and the late plague , as well as by the length of time , contrives to make trial of their difpofition by a ftratagem . He firft communicates his defign to ...
... Troy without his affiftance , but fears the army was difcouraged by his abfence and the late plague , as well as by the length of time , contrives to make trial of their difpofition by a ftratagem . He firft communicates his defign to ...
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... Troy . For now no more the Gods with fate contend ; At Juno's fuit the heavenly factions end . Deftruction hangs o'er yon devoted wall , And nodding Ilion waits th ' impending fall . Swift as the word the vain illusion fled , Defcends ...
... Troy . For now no more the Gods with fate contend ; At Juno's fuit the heavenly factions end . Deftruction hangs o'er yon devoted wall , And nodding Ilion waits th ' impending fall . Swift as the word the vain illusion fled , Defcends ...
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... Troy prevails by armies not her own . Now nine long years of mighty Jove are run , Since firft the labours of this war begun : Our cordage torn , decay'd our veffels lie , And scarce enfure the wretched power to fly . Hafte then , for ...
... Troy prevails by armies not her own . Now nine long years of mighty Jove are run , Since firft the labours of this war begun : Our cordage torn , decay'd our veffels lie , And scarce enfure the wretched power to fly . Hafte then , for ...
Page 10
... Troy to ransom at a price too dear ? But fafer plunder thy own hoft fupplies ; Say , would't thou feize fome valiant leader's prize ? Or , if thy heart to generous love be led , Some captive fair , to blefs thy kingly bed ? Whate'er our ...
... Troy to ransom at a price too dear ? But fafer plunder thy own hoft fupplies ; Say , would't thou feize fome valiant leader's prize ? Or , if thy heart to generous love be led , Some captive fair , to blefs thy kingly bed ? Whate'er our ...
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... Troy fo long refifts our powers . Rife , great Atrides ! and with courage sway ; We march to war , if thou direct the way . But leave the few that dare refift thy laws , The mean deferters of the Grecian cause , To gredge the conquefts ...
... Troy fo long refifts our powers . Rife , great Atrides ! and with courage sway ; We march to war , if thou direct the way . But leave the few that dare refift thy laws , The mean deferters of the Grecian cause , To gredge the conquefts ...
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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