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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... javelin thakes , With equal speed , and fir'd by equal charins , The Spartan hero fheaths his limbs in arms . Now round the lifts the admiring armies ftand , With javelins fix'd , the Greek and Trojan band . Amidst the dreadful vale ...
... javelin thakes , With equal speed , and fir'd by equal charins , The Spartan hero fheaths his limbs in arms . Now round the lifts the admiring armies ftand , With javelins fix'd , the Greek and Trojan band . Amidst the dreadful vale ...
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... javelin reach'd the hero's heart . His Bank , unguarded by his ample shield , Admits the lance : he falls , and ipurns the field ; The nerves , unbrac'd , fupport his limbs no more ; The foul comes floating in a tide of gore . Trojans ...
... javelin reach'd the hero's heart . His Bank , unguarded by his ample shield , Admits the lance : he falls , and ipurns the field ; The nerves , unbrac'd , fupport his limbs no more ; The foul comes floating in a tide of gore . Trojans ...
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... javelin drove from back to breast . In duft the , mighty Halizonian lay , His arms refound , the spirit wings its way . . Thy fate was next , O Phæftus ! doom'd to feel The great Idomeneus ' portended steel ; Whom Borus fent ( his fon ...
... javelin drove from back to breast . In duft the , mighty Halizonian lay , His arms refound , the spirit wings its way . . Thy fate was next , O Phæftus ! doom'd to feel The great Idomeneus ' portended steel ; Whom Borus fent ( his fon ...
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... javelin drank his blood . The faithful Mydon , as he turn'd from fight His flying courfer , funk to endless night : A broken rock by Neftor's fon was thrown ; His bended arm receiv'd the falling stone . From his numb'd hands the ivory ...
... javelin drank his blood . The faithful Mydon , as he turn'd from fight His flying courfer , funk to endless night : A broken rock by Neftor's fon was thrown ; His bended arm receiv'd the falling stone . From his numb'd hands the ivory ...
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... javelin from his finewy thigh . The fainting foul stood ready wing'd for flight , And o'er his eye - balls fwam the fhades of night ; But Boreas rifing fresh , with gentle breath , Recall'd his fpirit from the gates of death . The ...
... javelin from his finewy thigh . The fainting foul stood ready wing'd for flight , And o'er his eye - balls fwam the fhades of night ; But Boreas rifing fresh , with gentle breath , Recall'd his fpirit from the gates of death . The ...
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