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Page 107
This maxim , more than all the rest , Is thought too base for human breast : 6. In all distresses of our friends 6 We first consult our private ends ; 6. While nature , kindly bent to ease us , • Points out some circumstance to please ...
This maxim , more than all the rest , Is thought too base for human breast : 6. In all distresses of our friends 6 We first consult our private ends ; 6. While nature , kindly bent to ease us , • Points out some circumstance to please ...
Page 240
In verdant meads they sport , and wide around Lie human bones , that whiten all the ground ; The ground polluted floats with human gore , And human carnage taints the dreadful hore . Fly swift the dang'rous coait ; let ev'ry ear Be ...
In verdant meads they sport , and wide around Lie human bones , that whiten all the ground ; The ground polluted floats with human gore , And human carnage taints the dreadful hore . Fly swift the dang'rous coait ; let ev'ry ear Be ...
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First , that I lov'd the best of human race , By nature's hand with ev'ry virtue formd , Heroic , wise , adorn'd with ev'ry art ; Of Mame unconscious does my heart reveal . This day in Grecian arms conspicuous clad He fought , he fell .
First , that I lov'd the best of human race , By nature's hand with ev'ry virtue formd , Heroic , wise , adorn'd with ev'ry art ; Of Mame unconscious does my heart reveal . This day in Grecian arms conspicuous clad He fought , he fell .
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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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