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... in hopes of thy return , Rich odours on his loaded altars burn ; While with vain officious pomp , prepare To fend him back his portion of the war ; A bloody breathlefs body : which can owe No farther debt , but to the powers below .
... in hopes of thy return , Rich odours on his loaded altars burn ; While with vain officious pomp , prepare To fend him back his portion of the war ; A bloody breathlefs body : which can owe No farther debt , but to the powers below .
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Their fuit , which was too just to be deny'd , The hero grants , and farther thus reply'd : O Latian princes , how fevere a fate In caufeless quarrels has involv'd your state ! And arm'd against an unoffending man , Who fought your ...
Their fuit , which was too just to be deny'd , The hero grants , and farther thus reply'd : O Latian princes , how fevere a fate In caufeless quarrels has involv'd your state ! And arm'd against an unoffending man , Who fought your ...
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The banks of Amafcene at length he gains ; The raging flood his farther plight restrains : Rais'd o'er the borders with unufual rains . Prepar'd to plunge into the ftream , he fears : Not for himfelf , but for the charge he bears .
The banks of Amafcene at length he gains ; The raging flood his farther plight restrains : Rais'd o'er the borders with unufual rains . Prepar'd to plunge into the ftream , he fears : Not for himfelf , but for the charge he bears .
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Then , prefs'd by foes , he stemm'd the stormy tide ; And gain'd , by stress of arms , the farther fide . His faften'd fpear he pull'd from out the ground ; And , victor of his vows , his infant nymph unbound .
Then , prefs'd by foes , he stemm'd the stormy tide ; And gain'd , by stress of arms , the farther fide . His faften'd fpear he pull'd from out the ground ; And , victor of his vows , his infant nymph unbound .
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... farther dares advance : But fixing on the horrid maid his eye , He stares , and shakes , and finds it vain to fly . Yet like a true Ligurian , born to cheat , ( At least while fortune favour'd his deceit ) Cries out aloud ...
... farther dares advance : But fixing on the horrid maid his eye , He stares , and shakes , and finds it vain to fly . Yet like a true Ligurian , born to cheat , ( At least while fortune favour'd his deceit ) Cries out aloud ...
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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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