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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Page 8
... 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 ; Cloth'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wisdom , and rever'd ...
... 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 ; Cloth'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wisdom , and rever'd ...
Page 12
... o'er the windings of Cayfter's fprings , [ wings ; Stretch their long necks , and clap their ruftling Now tower aloft , and courfe in airy rounds ; Now light with noife ; with noife the field refounds . Thus numerous and confus'd ...
... o'er the windings of Cayfter's fprings , [ wings ; Stretch their long necks , and clap their ruftling Now tower aloft , and courfe in airy rounds ; Now light with noife ; with noife the field refounds . Thus numerous and confus'd ...
Page 27
... o'er the plain : [ place , Now here , now there , he darts from place to Pours on the rear , or lightens in their face . Thus from high hills the torrents swift and strong Deluge whole fields , and sweep the trees along , Through ruin'd ...
... o'er the plain : [ place , Now here , now there , he darts from place to Pours on the rear , or lightens in their face . Thus from high hills the torrents swift and strong Deluge whole fields , and sweep the trees along , Through ruin'd ...
Page 33
... O'er her broad shoulders hangs his horrid shield , Dire , black , tremendous ! Round the margin roll'd , A fringe of ferpents hiffing guards the gold : Here all the terrors of grim War appear , Here rages Force , here tremble Flight and ...
... O'er her broad shoulders hangs his horrid shield , Dire , black , tremendous ! Round the margin roll'd , A fringe of ferpents hiffing guards the gold : Here all the terrors of grim War appear , Here rages Force , here tremble Flight and ...
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... o'er the Grecian heads : Thick lightnings flash ; the muttering thunder rolls ; Their ftrength he withers , and unmans their fouls . Before his wrath the trembling hofts retire ; The God in terrors , and the skies on fire , Nor great ...
... o'er the Grecian heads : Thick lightnings flash ; the muttering thunder rolls ; Their ftrength he withers , and unmans their fouls . Before his wrath the trembling hofts retire ; The God in terrors , and the skies on fire , Nor great ...
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