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SCARCE had the rofy morning rais'd her head Above the waves , and left her watery bed ; The pious chief whom double cares attend For his unbury'd foldiers , and his friend : Yet first to heaven perform'd a victor's vow : He bar'd an ...
SCARCE had the rofy morning rais'd her head Above the waves , and left her watery bed ; The pious chief whom double cares attend For his unbury'd foldiers , and his friend : Yet first to heaven perform'd a victor's vow : He bar'd an ...
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A crowd of chiefs inclose the godlike man : Who thus , confpicuous in the midst , began : Our toils , my friends , are crown'd with fure fuccefs : The greater part perform'd , atchieve the lefs . Now follow chearful to the trembling ...
A crowd of chiefs inclose the godlike man : Who thus , confpicuous in the midst , began : Our toils , my friends , are crown'd with fure fuccefs : The greater part perform'd , atchieve the lefs . Now follow chearful to the trembling ...
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... marching in the rear : Appointed offerings in the victor's name , To sprinkle with their blood , the funeral flame . 105 110 115 Inferior trophies by the chiefs are born ; Gauntlets and helms , their loaded hands adorn ...
... marching in the rear : Appointed offerings in the victor's name , To sprinkle with their blood , the funeral flame . 105 110 115 Inferior trophies by the chiefs are born ; Gauntlets and helms , their loaded hands adorn ...
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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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... and on each other gaz'd : Drances , their chief , who harbour'd in his breaft Long hate to Turnus , as his foe profess'd , Broke filence firft , and to the godlike man , With graceful action bowing , thus began : Aufpicious prince ...
... and on each other gaz'd : Drances , their chief , who harbour'd in his breaft Long hate to Turnus , as his foe profess'd , Broke filence firft , and to the godlike man , With graceful action bowing , thus began : Aufpicious prince ...
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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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