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... For his unbury'd foldiers , and his friend : Yet first to heaven perform'd a victor's vow : He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs : Then on a rifing ground the trunk he plac'd ; Which with the spoils of his dead foe he grac'd .
... For his unbury'd foldiers , and his friend : Yet first to heaven perform'd a victor's vow : He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs : Then on a rifing ground the trunk he plac'd ; Which with the spoils of his dead foe he grac'd .
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They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ; But when Æneas view'd the grifly wound Which Pallas in his manly bofom bore , And the fair flesh diftain'd with purple gore : First , melting into tears , the pious man Deplor'd so fad a ...
They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ; But when Æneas view'd the grifly wound Which Pallas in his manly bofom bore , And the fair flesh diftain'd with purple gore : First , melting into tears , the pious man Deplor'd so fad a ...
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When introduc'd , our prefents first we bring , Then crave an instant audience from the king : His leave obtain'd , our native foil we name ; And tell th ' important caufe for which we came . Attentively he heard us , while we spoke ...
When introduc'd , our prefents first we bring , Then crave an instant audience from the king : His leave obtain'd , our native foil we name ; And tell th ' important caufe for which we came . Attentively he heard us , while we spoke ...
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Not fuch the Trojans try'd me , when , inclos'd , I fingly their united arms oppos'd : 605 610 First forc'd an entrance through their thick array ; 614 Then , glutted with their flaughter , freed my way . ' Tis a destructive war !
Not fuch the Trojans try'd me , when , inclos'd , I fingly their united arms oppos'd : 605 610 First forc'd an entrance through their thick array ; 614 Then , glutted with their flaughter , freed my way . ' Tis a destructive war !
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845 Through air fhe flies a fuppliant to thy fhrine ; And the first weapons that she knows , are thine . He said ; and with full force the spear he threw ; Above the founding waves Camilla flew . Then , prefs'd by foes , he stemm'd the ...
845 Through air fhe flies a fuppliant to thy fhrine ; And the first weapons that she knows , are thine . He said ; and with full force the spear he threw ; Above the founding waves Camilla flew . Then , prefs'd by foes , he stemm'd the ...
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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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