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 16
... hoft , Gods ! how the scornful Greeks exult to fee Their fears of danger undeceiv'd in thee ! Thy figure promis'd with a martial air , But ill thy foul supplies a form so fair , In former days , in all thy gallant pride When thy tall ...
... hoft , Gods ! how the scornful Greeks exult to fee Their fears of danger undeceiv'd in thee ! Thy figure promis'd with a martial air , But ill thy foul supplies a form so fair , In former days , in all thy gallant pride When thy tall ...
Page 17
... hoft , and thus to both applies : Hear , all ye Trojans , all ye Grecian bands ! What Paris , author of the war , demands . Your thining fwords within the sheath reftrain , And pitch your lances in the yielding plain . Here in the midft ...
... hoft , and thus to both applies : Hear , all ye Trojans , all ye Grecian bands ! What Paris , author of the war , demands . Your thining fwords within the sheath reftrain , And pitch your lances in the yielding plain . Here in the midft ...
Page 18
... hoft : the Grecian strength and pride . See ! bold Idomeneus fuperior towers Amidft yon circle of his Cretan powers , Great as a God ! I faw him once before , With Menelaus , on the Spartan fhore . The rest I know , and could in order ...
... hoft : the Grecian strength and pride . See ! bold Idomeneus fuperior towers Amidft yon circle of his Cretan powers , Great as a God ! I faw him once before , With Menelaus , on the Spartan fhore . The rest I know , and could in order ...
Page 24
... Hoft against hoft , with shady squadrons drew , The founding darts in iron tempefts flew , Victors and vanquish'd join promifcuous cries , And thrilling shouts and dying groans arite ; With streaming blood the flippery fields are dy'd ...
... Hoft against hoft , with shady squadrons drew , The founding darts in iron tempefts flew , Victors and vanquish'd join promifcuous cries , And thrilling shouts and dying groans arite ; With streaming blood the flippery fields are dy'd ...
Page 30
... hoft appears , From trampling steeds , and thundering charioteers ; The dusky clouds from labour'd earth arife , And roll in imoking volumes to the skies . Mars hovers o'er them with his fable shield , And adds new honours to the darken ...
... hoft appears , From trampling steeds , and thundering charioteers ; The dusky clouds from labour'd earth arife , And roll in imoking volumes to the skies . Mars hovers o'er them with his fable shield , And adds new honours to the darken ...
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Achilles Æneas Æneid Ajax ANTISTROPHE arms Atrides brave breaft cauſe chief cloſe coaft courſe courſers crown'd death deſcends divine dreadful Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate feas fide fierce fight filver fire firſt flain flames flies fome forrows foul fuch fury Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand Heaven Hector hero honours Jove juſt king labours laſt Latian leſs mighty mortal moſt muſt night numbers o'er Pallas Patroclus Peleus Pindar plain pleaſing poet praiſe preſent Priam prince queen race rage raiſe reſt rifing riſe ſay ſcene ſeas ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhield ſhining ſhips ſhore ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſome ſon ſpace ſpeak ſpear ſpeed ſpoke ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtate ſteeds ſtern ſtill ſtood ſtorms ſtream ſtrength ſuch ſweet ſword Telemachus thee theſe thoſe thou thunder toils train trembling Trojan Troy Ulyffes verſe Virgil whoſe woes wound youth