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Not thus I promis'd , when my father lent Thy needlefs fuccour with a fad consent ; Embrac'd me parting for th ' Etrurian land , And lent me to poffets a large command . Â 2 40 * 50 55 . $ 60 65 He we , He warn'd , and from his own ...
Not thus I promis'd , when my father lent Thy needlefs fuccour with a fad consent ; Embrac'd me parting for th ' Etrurian land , And lent me to poffets a large command . Â 2 40 * 50 55 . $ 60 65 He we , He warn'd , and from his own ...
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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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... Think peace concluded , and the king your friend : Let Turnus leave the realm to your command : And feek alliance in fome other land : Build you the city which your Fates affign : We fhall be proud in the great work to join .
... Think peace concluded , and the king your friend : Let Turnus leave the realm to your command : And feek alliance in fome other land : Build you the city which your Fates affign : We fhall be proud in the great work to join .
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Let him , who lords it o'er th ' Aufonian land , Engage the Trojan hero hand to hand : His is the gain , our lot is but to serve : ' Tis juft , the sway he feeks , he should deserve . This Drances aggravates ; and adds , with spight ...
Let him , who lords it o'er th ' Aufonian land , Engage the Trojan hero hand to hand : His is the gain , our lot is but to serve : ' Tis juft , the sway he feeks , he should deserve . This Drances aggravates ; and adds , with spight ...
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We have , faid he , perform'd your high command : And pafs'd with peril a long tract of land : We reach'd the place defir'd , with wonder fill'd , The Grecian tents and rifing towers beheld . Great Diomede has compafs'd round with walls ...
We have , faid he , perform'd your high command : And pafs'd with peril a long tract of land : We reach'd the place defir'd , with wonder fill'd , The Grecian tents and rifing towers beheld . Great Diomede has compafs'd round with walls ...
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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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