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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... fate The ftern Achilles , ftedfaft in his hate ; Nor mix'd in combat , nor in council join'd ; But wafting cares lay heavy on his mind : In his black thoughts revenge and flaughter roll , And . fcenes of blood rife dreadful in his foul ...
... fate The ftern Achilles , ftedfaft in his hate ; Nor mix'd in combat , nor in council join'd ; But wafting cares lay heavy on his mind : In his black thoughts revenge and flaughter roll , And . fcenes of blood rife dreadful in his foul ...
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... 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 , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ...
... 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 , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ...
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... fate , Burns with defire Sarpedon's ftrength to prove ; Alcides ' offspring meets the fon of Jove . Sheath'd in bright arms each adverse chief came on , Jove's great deicendant , and his greater fon . Prepar'd for combat ere the lance ...
... fate , Burns with defire Sarpedon's ftrength to prove ; Alcides ' offspring meets the fon of Jove . Sheath'd in bright arms each adverse chief came on , Jove's great deicendant , and his greater fon . Prepar'd for combat ere the lance ...
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... fate of war be try'd , And whofe the conquest , mighty Jove decide ! The monarch fpoke ! the warriors spoke with ( Each at his poft in arms ) a fhort repaft . [ hafte Soon as the rofy morn had wak'd the day , To the black fhips Idæus ...
... fate of war be try'd , And whofe the conquest , mighty Jove decide ! The monarch fpoke ! the warriors spoke with ( Each at his poft in arms ) a fhort repaft . [ hafte Soon as the rofy morn had wak'd the day , To the black fhips Idæus ...
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... Fate : fulfil it ; and , ye Powers , approve ! What God but enters yon forbidden field , Who yields affiftance , or but wills to yield ; Back to the fkies with thame he fhall be driven , Gaft'd with difhoneft wounds , the scorn of ...
... Fate : fulfil it ; and , ye Powers , approve ! What God but enters yon forbidden field , Who yields affiftance , or but wills to yield ; Back to the fkies with thame he fhall be driven , Gaft'd with difhoneft wounds , the scorn of ...
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