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Page 46
W HEN Turnus faw the Latins leave the field , Their armies broken , and their courage quell'd ; Himself become the mark of public fpight , His honour question'd for the promis'd fight : The more he was with vulgar hate opprefs'd ...
W HEN Turnus faw the Latins leave the field , Their armies broken , and their courage quell'd ; Himself become the mark of public fpight , His honour question'd for the promis'd fight : The more he was with vulgar hate opprefs'd ...
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The Trojan , by his word , is bound to take The fame conditions which himself did make . Renew the truce , the folemn rites prepare , And to my fingle virtue trust the war . The Latians , unconcern'd , shall see the fight ; This arm ...
The Trojan , by his word , is bound to take The fame conditions which himself did make . Renew the truce , the folemn rites prepare , And to my fingle virtue trust the war . The Latians , unconcern'd , shall see the fight ; This arm ...
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Turnus himself appears in public fight Confcious of fate , defponding of the fight . Slowly he moves ; and at his altar ftands With eyes dejected , and with trembling hands : And , while he mutters undistinguish'd prayers , A livid ...
Turnus himself appears in public fight Confcious of fate , defponding of the fight . Slowly he moves ; and at his altar ftands With eyes dejected , and with trembling hands : And , while he mutters undistinguish'd prayers , A livid ...
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For who would give phyfic to the great , when he is uncalled ? to do this patient no good , and endanger himself for his prescription ? Neither am I ignorant , but I may justly be condemned for many of thofe faults , of which I have too ...
For who would give phyfic to the great , when he is uncalled ? to do this patient no good , and endanger himself for his prescription ? Neither am I ignorant , but I may justly be condemned for many of thofe faults , of which I have too ...
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I answered not the Rèhearfal , because I knew the author fate to himself when he drew the picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce . Because alfo I knew , that my betters were more concerned than I was in that fatyr : and ...
I answered not the Rèhearfal , because I knew the author fate to himself when he drew the picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce . Because alfo I knew , that my betters were more concerned than I was in that fatyr : and ...
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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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