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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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... hadst not liv'd to fee his fhameful fate . But what a champion has th ' Aufonian coaft , And what a friend hast thou , Ascanius , lost ! ༡༠ Thus having mourn'd , he gave the word around , To raise the breathless body from the ground ...
... hadst not liv'd to fee his fhameful fate . But what a champion has th ' Aufonian coaft , And what a friend hast thou , Ascanius , lost ! ༡༠ Thus having mourn'd , he gave the word around , To raise the breathless body from the ground ...
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Acœtes on his pupil's corpse attends , With feeble steps ; fupported by his friends : Paufing at every pace , in forrow drown'd , Betwixt their arms he finks upon the ground . Where groveling , while he lies in deep despair , He beats ...
Acœtes on his pupil's corpse attends , With feeble steps ; fupported by his friends : Paufing at every pace , in forrow drown'd , Betwixt their arms he finks upon the ground . Where groveling , while he lies in deep despair , He beats ...
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The march begins : the trumpets - hoarfely found , The pikes and lances trail along the ground . Thus while the Trojan and Arcadian horse , To Pallantean towers direct their course , In long proceffion rank'd ; the pious chief Stopp'd ...
The march begins : the trumpets - hoarfely found , The pikes and lances trail along the ground . Thus while the Trojan and Arcadian horse , To Pallantean towers direct their course , In long proceffion rank'd ; the pious chief Stopp'd ...
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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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