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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... fire that fweeps the whole earth before it . " It is however remark- HOMER is univerfally allowed to have had the tor . The course of his verfes refembles that of greatest invention of any writer whatever . The the army he defcribes ...
... fire that fweeps the whole earth before it . " It is however remark- HOMER is univerfally allowed to have had the tor . The course of his verfes refembles that of greatest invention of any writer whatever . The the army he defcribes ...
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... fire infulted , and his gifts deny'd : The infulted fire ( his God's peculiar care ) To Phoebus pray'd , and Phoebus heard the prayer : A dreadful plague enfues ; th ' avenging darts Inceffant fly , and pierce the Grecian hearts . A ...
... fire infulted , and his gifts deny'd : The infulted fire ( his God's peculiar care ) To Phoebus pray'd , and Phoebus heard the prayer : A dreadful plague enfues ; th ' avenging darts Inceffant fly , and pierce the Grecian hearts . A ...
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... fire : The thighs thus facrific'd , and entrails dreft , Th ' afliftants part , transfix , and roast the test : Then spread the tables , the repaft prepare , Each takes his feat , and each receives his fhare . When now the rage of ...
... fire : The thighs thus facrific'd , and entrails dreft , Th ' afliftants part , transfix , and roast the test : Then spread the tables , the repaft prepare , Each takes his feat , and each receives his fhare . When now the rage of ...
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... fire ! Let Priam bleed ! If yet thou thirst for more , Bleed all his fons , and Ilion float with gore , To boundlefs vengeance the wide realm be given , Til va dettruction glut the Queen of Heaven ! So let it be , and Jove his peace ...
... fire ! Let Priam bleed ! If yet thou thirst for more , Bleed all his fons , and Ilion float with gore , To boundlefs vengeance the wide realm be given , Til va dettruction glut the Queen of Heaven ! So let it be , and Jove his peace ...
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... fire . Gods ! how the fop , degenerates from the fire ! No words the godlike Diomed return'd , Eut heard respectful , and in fecret burn'd : Not fo fierce Capaneus ' undaunted fon , Stern as his fire , the boafter thus begun : What ...
... fire . Gods ! how the fop , degenerates from the fire ! No words the godlike Diomed return'd , Eut heard respectful , and in fecret burn'd : Not fo fierce Capaneus ' undaunted fon , Stern as his fire , the boafter thus begun : What ...
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