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I was at the royal feaft , for Perfia won , By Philip's warlike son , Aloft , in awful fate , The God like hero fate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd arourd ; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bounů ...
I was at the royal feaft , for Perfia won , By Philip's warlike son , Aloft , in awful fate , The God like hero fate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd arourd ; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bounů ...
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For some small interval of time I move , I Some short , short season to subdue my Till reconcil'd to this unhappy ftate , I grow at last familiar with my fate : This favour if he grant , my death shall . please .
For some small interval of time I move , I Some short , short season to subdue my Till reconcil'd to this unhappy ftate , I grow at last familiar with my fate : This favour if he grant , my death shall . please .
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The Greeks remember'd , where by fate reprefs'd His arm first ceas'd to mow their legions dowa , And from beneath a mass of Perfian lain Soon drew the hero by his armour known . To Agis ' high pavilion they resort .
The Greeks remember'd , where by fate reprefs'd His arm first ceas'd to mow their legions dowa , And from beneath a mass of Perfian lain Soon drew the hero by his armour known . To Agis ' high pavilion they resort .
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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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