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While our ftrong walls fecure us from the foe , Ere yet with blood our ditches overflow : But let the potent orator declaim , And with the brand of coward blot my name ;Free leave is given him , when his fatal hand Has cover'd with more ...
While our ftrong walls fecure us from the foe , Ere yet with blood our ditches overflow : But let the potent orator declaim , And with the brand of coward blot my name ;Free leave is given him , when his fatal hand Has cover'd with more ...
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The fign is given , and round the listed space Each man in order fills his proper place , Reclining on their ample shields , they stand ; And fix their pointed lances in the fand . Now , ftudious of the fight , a numerous throng Of ...
The fign is given , and round the listed space Each man in order fills his proper place , Reclining on their ample shields , they stand ; And fix their pointed lances in the fand . Now , ftudious of the fight , a numerous throng Of ...
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Ten times , already , round the lifted place One chief had fled , and t ' other given the chace : No trivial prize is play'd ; for on the life Or death of Turnus , now depends the strife . Within the space an olive - tree had stood ...
Ten times , already , round the lifted place One chief had fled , and t ' other given the chace : No trivial prize is play'd ; for on the life Or death of Turnus , now depends the strife . Within the space an olive - tree had stood ...
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In the first place , therefore , I thankfully acknowledge to the Almighty Power , the affiftance he has given me in the beginning , the profecution , and conclufion of my prefent ftudies , which are more happily performed , than I could ...
In the first place , therefore , I thankfully acknowledge to the Almighty Power , the affiftance he has given me in the beginning , the profecution , and conclufion of my prefent ftudies , which are more happily performed , than I could ...
Page 97
... that Æneid appear in English with as much lustre as I could : though my author has not given the finishing strokes either to it , or to the eleventh , as I perhaps could prove in both , if I durst presume to criticize my master .
... that Æneid appear in English with as much lustre as I could : though my author has not given the finishing strokes either to it , or to the eleventh , as I perhaps could prove in both , if I durst presume to criticize my master .
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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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