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A troop of Trojans mix'd with these appear , And mourning matrons with dishevel'd hair . Soon as the prince appears , they raise a cry ; All beat their breasts , and echoes rend the sky . They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ...
A troop of Trojans mix'd with these appear , And mourning matrons with dishevel'd hair . Soon as the prince appears , they raise a cry ; All beat their breasts , and echoes rend the sky . They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ...
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Then two fair vefts , of wondrous work and coft , Of purple woven , and with gold em bofs'd , For ornament the Trojan hero brought , Which with her hands Sidonian Dido wrought . One veft array'd the corpfe , and one they spread O'er his ...
Then two fair vefts , of wondrous work and coft , Of purple woven , and with gold em bofs'd , For ornament the Trojan hero brought , Which with her hands Sidonian Dido wrought . One veft array'd the corpfe , and one they spread O'er his ...
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Thus while the Trojan and Arcadian horse , To Pallantean towers direct their course , In long proceffion rank'd ; the pious chief Stopp'd in the rear , and gave a vent to grief . The public care , he said , which war attends , Diverts ...
Thus while the Trojan and Arcadian horse , To Pallantean towers direct their course , In long proceffion rank'd ; the pious chief Stopp'd in the rear , and gave a vent to grief . The public care , he said , which war attends , Diverts ...
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Twelve days the term allow'd : and during those , Latians and Trojans , now no longer foes , Mix'd in the woods , for funeral piles prepare , To fell the timber , and forget the war . Loud axes through the groaning groves refound : 205 ...
Twelve days the term allow'd : and during those , Latians and Trojans , now no longer foes , Mix'd in the woods , for funeral piles prepare , To fell the timber , and forget the war . Loud axes through the groaning groves refound : 205 ...
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Yet will not I my Trojan friend upbraid , Nor grudge th ' alliance I fo gladly made . " Twas not his fault my Pallas fell so young , But my own crime for having liv'd too long . Yet , fince the gods had destin'd him to die , At least he ...
Yet will not I my Trojan friend upbraid , Nor grudge th ' alliance I fo gladly made . " Twas not his fault my Pallas fell so young , But my own crime for having liv'd too long . Yet , fince the gods had destin'd him to die , At least he ...
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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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