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Now from afar her fatal javelins play ; Now with her axe's edge the hews her way ; Diana's arms upon her fhoulder found ; And when , too closely prefs'd , fhe quits the ground , From her bent bow fhe fends a backward wound .
Now from afar her fatal javelins play ; Now with her axe's edge the hews her way ; Diana's arms upon her fhoulder found ; And when , too closely prefs'd , fhe quits the ground , From her bent bow fhe fends a backward wound .
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And now in pomp the peaceful kings appear : Four steeds the chariot of Latinus bear : Twelve golden beams around his temples play , To mark his lineage from the god of day . 245 Two Two fnowy courfers Turnus ' chariot yoke , And in 54 ...
And now in pomp the peaceful kings appear : Four steeds the chariot of Latinus bear : Twelve golden beams around his temples play , To mark his lineage from the god of day . 245 Two Two fnowy courfers Turnus ' chariot yoke , And in 54 ...
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Ten times , already , round the lifted place One chief had fled , and t ' other given the chace : No trivial prize is play'd ; for on the life Or death of Turnus , now depends the strife . Within the space an olive - tree had stood ...
Ten times , already , round the lifted place One chief had fled , and t ' other given the chace : No trivial prize is play'd ; for on the life Or death of Turnus , now depends the strife . Within the space an olive - tree had stood ...
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If there have been , or are any , who go farther in their felf - conceit , they must be very fingular in their opinion they must . * be like the Officer " Officer in a play , who was called Captain , 104 DEDICATION .
If there have been , or are any , who go farther in their felf - conceit , they must be very fingular in their opinion they must . * be like the Officer " Officer in a play , who was called Captain , 104 DEDICATION .
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Officer in a play , who was called Captain , Lieutenant , and Company . The world will eafily conclude , whether fuch unattended generals can ever be capable of making a revolution in Parnassus . I will not attempt , in this place ...
Officer in a play , who was called Captain , Lieutenant , and Company . The world will eafily conclude , whether fuch unattended generals can ever be capable of making a revolution in Parnassus . I will not attempt , in this place ...
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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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