The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 23
... death haft greatest need , If in true ballance thou wilt weigh thy state ; For , never knight that dared warlike deed , More lucklefs difadventures did amate : Witness the dungeon deep , wherein of late Thy life fhut up , for death fo ...
... death haft greatest need , If in true ballance thou wilt weigh thy state ; For , never knight that dared warlike deed , More lucklefs difadventures did amate : Witness the dungeon deep , wherein of late Thy life fhut up , for death fo ...
Page 232
... death of Hector ( the particulars of which may be seen in Virgil's Æneid ) and that the unhappy Priam was killed by Pyrrhus . Achil les , as Hector prophefied at his death , fell before Troy , where he was fhot in the heel , by an arrow ...
... death of Hector ( the particulars of which may be seen in Virgil's Æneid ) and that the unhappy Priam was killed by Pyrrhus . Achil les , as Hector prophefied at his death , fell before Troy , where he was fhot in the heel , by an arrow ...
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... death of Hector , what of Lavinia and Latinus after the death of Turnus , and what effect the death of Leonidas had on the Greeks and Perfians ? Of this , however , he cannot be in- formed without violating the rules of the Epic ; for ...
... death of Hector , what of Lavinia and Latinus after the death of Turnus , and what effect the death of Leonidas had on the Greeks and Perfians ? Of this , however , he cannot be in- formed without violating the rules of the Epic ; for ...
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