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We have , faid he , perform'd your high command : And pafs'd with peril a long tract of land : We reach'd the place defir'd , with wonder fill'd , The Grecian tents and rifing towers beheld . Great Diomede has compafs'd round with walls ...
We have , faid he , perform'd your high command : And pafs'd with peril a long tract of land : We reach'd the place defir'd , with wonder fill'd , The Grecian tents and rifing towers beheld . Great Diomede has compafs'd round with walls ...
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... the Grecians are o'erthrown : Suppliant at Hector's feet Achilles lies ; And Diomede from fierce Æneas flies . Say rapid Aufidus with awful dread , Runs backward from the fea , and hides his head , When the great Trojan on his bank ...
... the Grecians are o'erthrown : Suppliant at Hector's feet Achilles lies ; And Diomede from fierce Æneas flies . Say rapid Aufidus with awful dread , Runs backward from the fea , and hides his head , When the great Trojan on his bank ...
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Such to the field Penthefilea led , From the fierce virgin when the Grecians filed : With fuch , return'd triumphant from the war ; Her maids with cries attend the lofty car : They clash with manly force their ...
Such to the field Penthefilea led , From the fierce virgin when the Grecians filed : With fuch , return'd triumphant from the war ; Her maids with cries attend the lofty car : They clash with manly force their ...
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The prince of the Perfians , and that other of the Grecians , are granted to be the guardians and protecting minifters of those empires . It cannot be denied , that they were oppofite , and resisted one another .
The prince of the Perfians , and that other of the Grecians , are granted to be the guardians and protecting minifters of those empires . It cannot be denied , that they were oppofite , and resisted one another .
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... that the Median and Perfian monarchy , when delivered from the Babylonish captivity , fhould still be uppermoft : and the patron of the Grecians , to whom the will of God might be more particularly revealed , contending on the other ...
... that the Median and Perfian monarchy , when delivered from the Babylonish captivity , fhould still be uppermoft : and the patron of the Grecians , to whom the will of God might be more particularly revealed , contending on the other ...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 11 |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) |
| Publisher | J. Rivington, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 366 pages |
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