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Page 80
... unto him to escape , that the race of Dardanus perish not without seed and be seen no more - of Dardanus whom the son of Cronos loved above all the children born to him from mortal women . For at length hath the son of Cronos come to ...
... unto him to escape , that the race of Dardanus perish not without seed and be seen no more - of Dardanus whom the son of Cronos loved above all the children born to him from mortal women . For at length hath the son of Cronos come to ...
Page 126
... unto those Who've had it not in hand , and since the crowd Starts back from it in horror ) have desired To expound our doctrine unto thee in song Soft - speaking and Pierian , and , as ' twere , To touch it with sweet honey of the Muse ...
... unto those Who've had it not in hand , and since the crowd Starts back from it in horror ) have desired To expound our doctrine unto thee in song Soft - speaking and Pierian , and , as ' twere , To touch it with sweet honey of the Muse ...
Page 169
... unto devotion , and so keen to give itself to God with all its will , as at those words was I ; and so wholly was my love committed unto him , it eclipsed Beatrice in oblivion . Her it displeased not ; but she so smiled thereat , the ...
... unto devotion , and so keen to give itself to God with all its will , as at those words was I ; and so wholly was my love committed unto him , it eclipsed Beatrice in oblivion . Her it displeased not ; but she so smiled thereat , the ...
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Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Alcinous allegory Athene Beatrice beautiful believe better body breath Byron canto Chaucer comes comic spirit courtesy Criseyde Dante Dante's dark death Diomedes Divine Comedy doth earth epic eternity Eumaeus Eurycleia eyes Faerie Queene father fear feel gods golden hath heart heaven Hector Hell Hephaestus hero Homer Iliad important irony Ithaca less light live look lover Lucretius matter mean Menelaus Milton mind mortal nature Nestor never night Odysseus once Pandar Paradise Patroclus peace Penelope persons Phaeacian poem poet poetry Prelude Priam Purgatory Pylos reader seems seen sense ship silence sleep song soul speak Spenser story style sweet tale Telemachus tell thee Thetis things thou thought told tragedy Troilus Troilus and Criseyde Trojans Troy truth turn unto Virgil wind words Wordsworth wrath Zeus