The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 21
... blood were cold : And to the villain faid ; thou damned wight , The author of this fact , we here behold , What juftice can but judg against thee right , With thine own blood to price his blood , here shed in fight . What frantic fit ...
... blood were cold : And to the villain faid ; thou damned wight , The author of this fact , we here behold , What juftice can but judg against thee right , With thine own blood to price his blood , here shed in fight . What frantic fit ...
Page 22
... blood shed , and avengement , Now prais'd , hereafter dear thou shalt repent : For , life muft life , and blood muft blood repay . Is not enough thy evil life forefpent ? For he , that once hath miffed the right way , The further he ...
... blood shed , and avengement , Now prais'd , hereafter dear thou shalt repent : For , life muft life , and blood muft blood repay . Is not enough thy evil life forefpent ? For he , that once hath miffed the right way , The further he ...
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... blood , and philofophy gives us the reafon of them : " the two battles which had been fought on the plains " of Troy , had fo drenched them with blood , that a great quantity of it might be exhaled in vapours , and " carried into the ...
... blood , and philofophy gives us the reafon of them : " the two battles which had been fought on the plains " of Troy , had fo drenched them with blood , that a great quantity of it might be exhaled in vapours , and " carried into the ...
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