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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... Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound ; Breathing revenge , a fudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the feather'd fates below . On ...
... Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound ; Breathing revenge , a fudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the feather'd fates below . On ...
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... fierce , the fearless , and the brave ; And durft he , as he ought , resent that wrong , This mighty tyrant were no tyrant long . Fierce from his feat at this Ulyffes fprings , In generous vengeance of the king of kings ; With ...
... fierce , the fearless , and the brave ; And durft he , as he ought , resent that wrong , This mighty tyrant were no tyrant long . Fierce from his feat at this Ulyffes fprings , In generous vengeance of the king of kings ; With ...
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... fierce encounter fear'd ; Still first in front the matchlefs prince appear'd ; What glorious toils , what wonders they recite , Who view'd him labouring through the ranks of fight ! 1 faw him once , when , gathering martial power , A ...
... fierce encounter fear'd ; Still first in front the matchlefs prince appear'd ; What glorious toils , what wonders they recite , Who view'd him labouring through the ranks of fight ! 1 faw him once , when , gathering martial power , A ...
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... fierce Achilles fights no more . Apollo this from Ilion's lofty towers Array'd in terrors , rouz'd the Trojan powers : While War's fierce Goddefs fires the Grecian foe And fhouts and thunders in the fields below . Then great Diores ...
... fierce Achilles fights no more . Apollo this from Ilion's lofty towers Array'd in terrors , rouz'd the Trojan powers : While War's fierce Goddefs fires the Grecian foe And fhouts and thunders in the fields below . Then great Diores ...
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... fierce effulgence flow'd : Onward the drives him , furious to engage , Where the fight burns , and where the thickest rage . [ plain . The fons of Dares first the combat fought , A wealthy priest , but rich without a fault ; In Vulcan's ...
... fierce effulgence flow'd : Onward the drives him , furious to engage , Where the fight burns , and where the thickest rage . [ plain . The fons of Dares first the combat fought , A wealthy priest , but rich without a fault ; In Vulcan's ...
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