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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... prince's word- Offure protection , by thy power and sword . For I must speak what witdom would conceal , And truths , invidious to the great , reveal . Bold is the task , when fubjects grown too wife , Inftruct a monarch where his error ...
... prince's word- Offure protection , by thy power and sword . For I must speak what witdom would conceal , And truths , invidious to the great , reveal . Bold is the task , when fubjects grown too wife , Inftruct a monarch where his error ...
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... prince with pride ; Let kings be juft , and fovereign power preside ; Thee , the firit honours of the war adorn , Like Gods in ftrength , and of a goddess born ; Him , awful majefty exalts above The powers of earth , and fcepter'd fons ...
... prince with pride ; Let kings be juft , and fovereign power preside ; Thee , the firit honours of the war adorn , Like Gods in ftrength , and of a goddess born ; Him , awful majefty exalts above The powers of earth , and fcepter'd fons ...
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... prince shall Heaven only knows , for Heaven difpofes all . This faid , the hoary king no longer stay'd , But on his car the flaughter'd victims laid ; Then feiz'd the reins his gentle fteeds to guide And drove to Troy , Antenor at his ...
... prince shall Heaven only knows , for Heaven difpofes all . This faid , the hoary king no longer stay'd , But on his car the flaughter'd victims laid ; Then feiz'd the reins his gentle fteeds to guide And drove to Troy , Antenor at his ...
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... prince beheld , and high refenting spoke . Thy hate to Troy , is this the time to show ? ( Oh wretch ill - fated , and thy country's foe ! ) Paris and Greece against us , both confpire ; Thy close refentment , and their vengeful ire ...
... prince beheld , and high refenting spoke . Thy hate to Troy , is this the time to show ? ( Oh wretch ill - fated , and thy country's foe ! ) Paris and Greece against us , both confpire ; Thy close refentment , and their vengeful ire ...
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... prince ! it fits alike to speak and hear , Pronounce with judgment , with regard give ear , To fee no wholefome ... prince's faults , and I with reafon own . That happy man , whom Jove still honours most , Is more than armies , and ...
... prince ! it fits alike to speak and hear , Pronounce with judgment , with regard give ear , To fee no wholefome ... prince's faults , and I with reafon own . That happy man , whom Jove still honours most , Is more than armies , and ...
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