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Warriors she fires with animated sounds , Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds : Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus rouses from his bed , Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , Lift'ning envy drops her snakes ; Inteftine war no ...
Warriors she fires with animated sounds , Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds : Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus rouses from his bed , Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , Lift'ning envy drops her snakes ; Inteftine war no ...
Page 203
... Hector ! approach my arm , and singly know What strength thou hast , and what the Grecian foe . ... Indulge his wrath , and aid our arms no more ; of heroes Greece has yet to boast , And sends thee one , a sample of her host ...
... Hector ! approach my arm , and singly know What strength thou hast , and what the Grecian foe . ... Indulge his wrath , and aid our arms no more ; of heroes Greece has yet to boast , And sends thee one , a sample of her host ...
Page 379
This day in Grecian arms conspicuous clad He fought , he fell . A passion long conceal'd For me , alas ! within my brother's arms His dying breath resigning he disclos'd . -Oh I will ftay my sorrows ! will forbid My eyes to stream ...
This day in Grecian arms conspicuous clad He fought , he fell . A passion long conceal'd For me , alas ! within my brother's arms His dying breath resigning he disclos'd . -Oh I will ftay my sorrows ! will forbid My eyes to stream ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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