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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... ftern debate The best , the braveft of the Grecian ftate . Young as ye are , this youthful head restrain , Nor think your Neftor's years and wildom vain . A Godlike race of heroes once I knew , Such , as no more thefe aged eyes fhall ...
... ftern debate The best , the braveft of the Grecian ftate . Young as ye are , this youthful head restrain , Nor think your Neftor's years and wildom vain . A Godlike race of heroes once I knew , Such , as no more thefe aged eyes fhall ...
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... 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 . Twelve ...
... 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 . Twelve ...
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... ftern Achilles in his wrath retir'd ( His was the ftrength that mortal might exceeds , And his , th ' unrivall'd race of heavenly steeds ) . But Thetis ' fon now fhines in arms no more ; His troops , neglected on the fandy shore ...
... ftern Achilles in his wrath retir'd ( His was the ftrength that mortal might exceeds , And his , th ' unrivall'd race of heavenly steeds ) . But Thetis ' fon now fhines in arms no more ; His troops , neglected on the fandy shore ...
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... ftern Atrides rages round the field : So fome fell lion , whom the woods obey , Roars through the defert , and demands his prey Paris he feeks , impatient to destroy , But feeks in vain along the troops of Troy ; Ev'n thofe had yielded ...
... ftern Atrides rages round the field : So fome fell lion , whom the woods obey , Roars through the defert , and demands his prey Paris he feeks , impatient to destroy , But feeks in vain along the troops of Troy ; Ev'n thofe had yielded ...
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... ftern defire , Burit all her gates , and wrap her walls in 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 ...
... ftern defire , Burit all her gates , and wrap her walls in 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 ...
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