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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 from contempt below . That conquer'd earth be theirs for which they fought ...
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 from contempt below . That conquer'd earth be theirs for which they fought ...
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... live lingering on , ' Tis to behold his vengeance for my fon . Iftay for Turnus ; whofe devoted head Is owing to the living and the dead : 250 255 } 260 271 275 My My fon and I expect it from his hand ; TO DRYDEN'S VIRGIL .
... live lingering on , ' Tis to behold his vengeance for my fon . Iftay for Turnus ; whofe devoted head Is owing to the living and the dead : 250 255 } 260 271 275 My My fon and I expect it from his hand ; TO DRYDEN'S VIRGIL .
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... measure out the space ; 179 Then facred altars rear , on fods of grafs ; Where , with religious rites , their common gods they place . In pureft white the priests their heads attire , And living waters bear , and holy fire : And ...
... measure out the space ; 179 Then facred altars rear , on fods of grafs ; Where , with religious rites , their common gods they place . In pureft white the priests their heads attire , And living waters bear , and holy fire : And ...
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O nymph , the pride of living lakes , said she , O most renown'd , and moft belov'd by me , Long haft thou known , nor need I to record The wanton fallies of my wandering lord : 210 215 Of every Latian fair , whom Jove misled , To E 3 ...
O nymph , the pride of living lakes , said she , O most renown'd , and moft belov'd by me , Long haft thou known , nor need I to record The wanton fallies of my wandering lord : 210 215 Of every Latian fair , whom Jove misled , To E 3 ...
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... Ye living fountains , and ye running floods , All powers of ocean , all ethereal gods , Hear , and bear record : if I fall in field , Or recreant in the fight , to Turnus yield , My Trojans fhall increase Evander's town ; Afcanius ...
... Ye living fountains , and ye running floods , All powers of ocean , all ethereal gods , Hear , and bear record : if I fall in field , Or recreant in the fight , to Turnus yield , My Trojans fhall increase Evander's town ; Afcanius ...
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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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