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Page 147
... chose This stratagem t'amuse our foes , To make an hon'rable retreat , And wave a total sure defeat : For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle Nain Cån never rise and fight again .
... chose This stratagem t'amuse our foes , To make an hon'rable retreat , And wave a total sure defeat : For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle Nain Cån never rise and fight again .
Page 203
They fight , not because they have any particular disinclination to each other ; but for the honour of their countries , and to end a long and bloody war . Ajax , agrecably to his character , which is that of a gigantic , brave and ...
They fight , not because they have any particular disinclination to each other ; but for the honour of their countries , and to end a long and bloody war . Ajax , agrecably to his character , which is that of a gigantic , brave and ...
Page 308
No peace , no commerce with the race be made :: Pay this last duty to your princels ' hade ; Fight , when your pow'r supplies so just a rage ; : Fight now , fight still , in every diftant age ; By land , by fea , in arms the nation dare ...
No peace , no commerce with the race be made :: Pay this last duty to your princels ' hade ; Fight , when your pow'r supplies so just a rage ; : Fight now , fight still , in every diftant age ; By land , by fea , in arms the nation dare ...
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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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