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The royal Peleus , when from Pthia's coast He sent thee early to the Achaian hoft ; Thy youth as then in fage debates unskill'd , And new to perils of the direful field : He bad me teach thee all the ways of war ; To fhire in councils ...
The royal Peleus , when from Pthia's coast He sent thee early to the Achaian hoft ; Thy youth as then in fage debates unskill'd , And new to perils of the direful field : He bad me teach thee all the ways of war ; To fhire in councils ...
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Then thus the chief his dying accents drew Thy rage , implacable ! too well I knew : The furies that relentless breast have steel'd , lond curft thee with a heart that cannot yield . Yet think , a day will come , when fates decree And ...
Then thus the chief his dying accents drew Thy rage , implacable ! too well I knew : The furies that relentless breast have steel'd , lond curft thee with a heart that cannot yield . Yet think , a day will come , when fates decree And ...
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No more the troops , ( our hoisted fails in view , Themselves abandon'd ) shall the fight pursue , Thy ships first Aying with despair shall fee , And owe destruction to a p : ince like thee . But Agamemnon's resolution seems to have ...
No more the troops , ( our hoisted fails in view , Themselves abandon'd ) shall the fight pursue , Thy ships first Aying with despair shall fee , And owe destruction to a p : ince like thee . But Agamemnon's resolution seems to have ...
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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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