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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... whofe words he fometimes copies , and has unhappily followed him in paffages where he wanders from the original . However , had he tranflated the whole work , I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil , his verfion of ...
... whofe words he fometimes copies , and has unhappily followed him in paffages where he wanders from the original . However , had he tranflated the whole work , I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil , his verfion of ...
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... whofe brow fuch martial graces fhine , So tall , fo awful , and almoft divine ! Though fome of larger ftature tread the green , None match his grandeur and exalted mien : He feems a monarch , and his country's pride , Thus ceas'd the ...
... whofe brow fuch martial graces fhine , So tall , fo awful , and almoft divine ! Though fome of larger ftature tread the green , None match his grandeur and exalted mien : He feems a monarch , and his country's pride , Thus ceas'd the ...
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... Whofe caufe we follow , and whofe war we wage ; His the first praife , were Ilion's towers o'erthrown And , if we fail , the chief difgrace his own . Let him the Greeks to hardy toils excite , ' Tis ours to labour in the glorious fight ...
... Whofe caufe we follow , and whofe war we wage ; His the first praife , were Ilion's towers o'erthrown And , if we fail , the chief difgrace his own . Let him the Greeks to hardy toils excite , ' Tis ours to labour in the glorious fight ...
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... whofe the conquest mighty Jove decide : While we from interdicted fields retire , Nor tempt the wrata of heaven's avenging Sire . Her words allay'd the impetuous warrior's heat , The God of Arms and Martial Maid retreat ; Remov'd from ...
... whofe the conquest mighty Jove decide : While we from interdicted fields retire , Nor tempt the wrata of heaven's avenging Sire . Her words allay'd the impetuous warrior's heat , The God of Arms and Martial Maid retreat ; Remov'd from ...
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... whofe foul No fear could daunt , nor earth nor hell controul . Troy felt his arm , and yon proud ramparts ftand Rais'd on the ruins of his vengeful hand : With fix small ships , and but a slender train , He left the town a wide ...
... whofe foul No fear could daunt , nor earth nor hell controul . Troy felt his arm , and yon proud ramparts ftand Rais'd on the ruins of his vengeful hand : With fix small ships , and but a slender train , He left the town a wide ...
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