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Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Ease after war , death after life , does greatly please . The knight much wondred at his sudden wit , And said : The term of life is limited , Ne may a man prolong , nor shorten it : The ...
Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Ease after war , death after life , does greatly please . The knight much wondred at his sudden wit , And said : The term of life is limited , Ne may a man prolong , nor shorten it : The ...
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Thou , wretched man , of death haft greatest need , If in true ballance thou wilt weigh thy state ; For , never knight that dared warlike deed , More luckless disadventures did amate : Witness the dungeon deep , wherein of late Thy life ...
Thou , wretched man , of death haft greatest need , If in true ballance thou wilt weigh thy state ; For , never knight that dared warlike deed , More luckless disadventures did amate : Witness the dungeon deep , wherein of late Thy life ...
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Of the ODYSSE Y. We have already observed , that the Iliad does not cxtend to the deftruction of Troy , but ends with the death of Hector ; because , as the anger of Achilles was the subject of the aclion , and that ending with the ...
Of the ODYSSE Y. We have already observed , that the Iliad does not cxtend to the deftruction of Troy , but ends with the death of Hector ; because , as the anger of Achilles was the subject of the aclion , and that ending with the ...
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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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