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What eye can steadfastly survey Death , and its dark tremendous way ? For foon as fate has clos'd our eyes , Man dies - for ever , ever dies ! All pale , all senseless , in the urn ! Never , ah ! never to return .
What eye can steadfastly survey Death , and its dark tremendous way ? For foon as fate has clos'd our eyes , Man dies - for ever , ever dies ! All pale , all senseless , in the urn ! Never , ah ! never to return .
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Mercury had closed the eyes of the guards and attendants of Achilles , that Priam might pass with safety ; and therefore , Unseen by these , the king his entry made ; And proftrate now before Achilles laid , Sudden ( a venerable fight ! ) ...
Mercury had closed the eyes of the guards and attendants of Achilles , that Priam might pass with safety ; and therefore , Unseen by these , the king his entry made ; And proftrate now before Achilles laid , Sudden ( a venerable fight ! ) ...
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The care of heav'n thy Hector has appear'd , Nor shall he lie unwept , and uninterr'd ; Soon may thy aged cheeks in tears be drown'd , And all the eyes of Ilion stream around . He said , and rising , chose the victim ewe With silver ...
The care of heav'n thy Hector has appear'd , Nor shall he lie unwept , and uninterr'd ; Soon may thy aged cheeks in tears be drown'd , And all the eyes of Ilion stream around . He said , and rising , chose the victim ewe With silver ...
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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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