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Page 105
Shall half the new built churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or repair Whiteball ; Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M * o's was , but not at five e per cent . Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind ...
Shall half the new built churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or repair Whiteball ; Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M * o's was , but not at five e per cent . Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind ...
Page 206
Not one of all the race , nor sex , nor age , Shall save a Trojan from our boundless rage : Ilicn Thall perish whole , and bury all ; Her babes , her infants at the breast , shall fall . Nay the wise Ulyses , at a time when Agamemnon ...
Not one of all the race , nor sex , nor age , Shall save a Trojan from our boundless rage : Ilicn Thall perish whole , and bury all ; Her babes , her infants at the breast , shall fall . Nay the wise Ulyses , at a time when Agamemnon ...
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For sure such courage length of life denies , And thou must fall , thy virtue's sacrifice . Greece in her single heroes strove in vain ; Now hosts oppose thee , and thou must be sain ! Oh , grant me , gods ! ere Hector meets his doom ...
For sure such courage length of life denies , And thou must fall , thy virtue's sacrifice . Greece in her single heroes strove in vain ; Now hosts oppose thee , and thou must be sain ! Oh , grant me , gods ! ere Hector meets his doom ...
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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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