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Fear is no more : for fierce Mezentius lies , As the firf fruits of war , a facrifice . Turnus fhall stand extended on the pain ; And in this omen is already slain . Prepar'd in arms , purfue your happy chance : That none unwarn'd ...
Fear is no more : for fierce Mezentius lies , As the firf fruits of war , a facrifice . Turnus fhall stand extended on the pain ; And in this omen is already slain . Prepar'd in arms , purfue your happy chance : That none unwarn'd ...
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1 Would I your juftice or your force exprefs , Thought can but equal ; and all words are less : 190 Your answer we fhall thankfully relate , And favours granted to the Latian state : If wifh'd fuccefs your labour fhall attend , Think ...
1 Would I your juftice or your force exprefs , Thought can but equal ; and all words are less : 190 Your answer we fhall thankfully relate , And favours granted to the Latian state : If wifh'd fuccefs your labour fhall attend , Think ...
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... and as deaf to prayer . Some new alliance muft elsewhere be fought ; Or peace with Troy on hard conditions bought . Latinus , funk in forrow , finds too late A foreign fon is pointed out by fate : And till Æneas fhall Lavinia ...
... and as deaf to prayer . Some new alliance muft elsewhere be fought ; Or peace with Troy on hard conditions bought . Latinus , funk in forrow , finds too late A foreign fon is pointed out by fate : And till Æneas fhall Lavinia ...
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Yet if the foe a fingle fight demand , And I alone the public peace withstand ; If you confent , he fhall not be refus'd , Nor find a hand to victory unus'd . This new Achilles let him take the field , With fated armour , and Vulcanian ...
Yet if the foe a fingle fight demand , And I alone the public peace withstand ; If you confent , he fhall not be refus'd , Nor find a hand to victory unus'd . This new Achilles let him take the field , With fated armour , and Vulcanian ...
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Thou , with thy Volfcians , face the Thufcan horfe :The brave Meffapus fhall thy troops inforce ; With thofe of Tibur ; and the Latian band : Subjected all to thy fupreme command . This faid , he warns Meffapus to the war : Then every ...
Thou , with thy Volfcians , face the Thufcan horfe :The brave Meffapus fhall thy troops inforce ; With thofe of Tibur ; and the Latian band : Subjected all to thy fupreme command . This faid , he warns Meffapus to the war : Then every ...
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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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