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... Thy needless fuccour with a fad confent ; Embrac'd me parting for th ' Etrurian land , And fent me to poffefe a large command . the reft 50 $ 55 60 65 70 80 He warn'd , and from his own experience B 2 He NEIS . BOOK XI . 3.
... Thy needless fuccour with a fad confent ; Embrac'd me parting for th ' Etrurian land , And fent me to poffefe a large command . the reft 50 $ 55 60 65 70 80 He warn'd , and from his own experience B 2 He NEIS . BOOK XI . 3.
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... fent , demand A truce , with olive - branches in their hand .. 140 145 150 Obteft his clemency , and from the plain Beg leave to draw the bodies of their flain . They plead , that none thofe common rites deny . To conquer'd foes , that ...
... fent , demand A truce , with olive - branches in their hand .. 140 145 150 Obteft his clemency , and from the plain Beg leave to draw the bodies of their flain . They plead , that none thofe common rites deny . To conquer'd foes , that ...
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... fent by Fate to fhare the Latian land . Nor wage I wars unjuft ; your king deny'd My proffer'd friendship , and my promis'd bride . Left me for Turnus ; Turnus then fhould try His caufe in arms , to conquer or to die . My right and his ...
... fent by Fate to fhare the Latian land . Nor wage I wars unjuft ; your king deny'd My proffer'd friendship , and my promis'd bride . Left me for Turnus ; Turnus then fhould try His caufe in arms , to conquer or to die . My right and his ...
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... fent whole herds of flaughter'd foes before : A death too great , too glorious to deplore . Nor will I add new honours to thy grave ; Content with those the Trojan hero gave . 250 255 } 260 That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign ...
... fent whole herds of flaughter'd foes before : A death too great , too glorious to deplore . Nor will I add new honours to thy grave ; Content with those the Trojan hero gave . 250 255 } 260 That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign ...
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... fent from the fame hand , Both fall together , and both spurn the fand . Amaftrus next is added to the flain : The rest in rout the follows o'er the plain : Tereus , Harpalicus , Demophoon , And Chromys , at full speed her fury shun ...
... fent from the fame hand , Both fall together , and both spurn the fand . Amaftrus next is added to the flain : The rest in rout the follows o'er the plain : Tereus , Harpalicus , Demophoon , And Chromys , at full speed her fury shun ...
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Sida 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Sida 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Sida 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Sida 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Sida 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Sida 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Sida 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Sida 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Sida 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Sida 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.