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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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... at heaven's appointed hour , may find Your walike enfigns waving in the wind . Mean time the rites and funeral pomps prepare , Due to your dead companions of the war : The last refpect the living can beftow , To fhield their fhadows ...
... at heaven's appointed hour , may find Your walike enfigns waving in the wind . Mean time the rites and funeral pomps prepare , Due to your dead companions of the war : The last refpect the living can beftow , To fhield their fhadows ...
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I came not hither but by heaven's command , And fent by Fate to fhare the Latian land . Nor wage I wars unjuft ; your king deny'd My proffer'd friendship , and my promis'd bride . Left me for Turnus ; Turnus then should try His caufe in ...
I came not hither but by heaven's command , And fent by Fate to fhare the Latian land . Nor wage I wars unjuft ; your king deny'd My proffer'd friendship , and my promis'd bride . Left me for Turnus ; Turnus then should try His caufe in ...
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O curft effay of arms , difaftrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields , and fights to come ! Hard elements of inaufpicious war , Vain vows to heaven , and unavailing care ! Thrice happy thou , dear partner of my bed , Whofe holy foul the ...
O curft effay of arms , difaftrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields , and fights to come ! Hard elements of inaufpicious war , Vain vows to heaven , and unavailing care ! Thrice happy thou , dear partner of my bed , Whofe holy foul the ...
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... and Tufcan chief , command To raise the piles along the winding ftrand : Their friends convey the dead to funeral fires ; Black fmouldring fmoke from the green wood expires ; The light of heaven is chok'd , and the new day retires .
... and Tufcan chief , command To raise the piles along the winding ftrand : Their friends convey the dead to funeral fires ; Black fmouldring fmoke from the green wood expires ; The light of heaven is chok'd , and the new day retires .
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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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