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Soon as the prince appears , they raise a cry ; All beat their breasts , and echoes rend the sky . They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ; But when Æneas view'd the grifly wound Which Pallas in his manly bofom bore , And the ...
Soon as the prince appears , they raise a cry ; All beat their breasts , and echoes rend the sky . They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ; But when Æneas view'd the grifly wound Which Pallas in his manly bofom bore , And the ...
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... and to the godlike man , With graceful action bowing , thus began : Aufpicious prince , in arms a mighty name , But yet whose actions far tranfcend your fame : ' B 4 Would 1.85 1 Would I your juftice or your force exprefs , NEIS .
... and to the godlike man , With graceful action bowing , thus began : Aufpicious prince , in arms a mighty name , But yet whose actions far tranfcend your fame : ' B 4 Would 1.85 1 Would I your juftice or your force exprefs , NEIS .
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... with a funeral flambeau in his hand : Wildly they ftare , distracted with amaze : The fields are lighten'd with a fiery blaze , That caft a fullen fplendor on their friends . ( The marching troop which their dread prince attends ) .
... with a funeral flambeau in his hand : Wildly they ftare , distracted with amaze : The fields are lighten'd with a fiery blaze , That caft a fullen fplendor on their friends . ( The marching troop which their dread prince attends ) .
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While thus their factious minds with fury burn ; The legates from th ' Ætolian prince return : Sad news they bring , that , after all the coft , And care employ'd , their embaffy is loft : That Diomede refus'd his aid in war ; Unmov'd ...
While thus their factious minds with fury burn ; The legates from th ' Ætolian prince return : Sad news they bring , that , after all the coft , And care employ'd , their embaffy is loft : That Diomede refus'd his aid in war ; Unmov'd ...
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Witness the veffels by Minerva tofs'd In ftorms , the vengeful Capharean coast ; Th ' Eubean rocks ; the prince , whofe brother led Our armies to revenge his injur'd bed , In Egypt loft ; Ulyffes , with his men , Have feen Charybdis ...
Witness the veffels by Minerva tofs'd In ftorms , the vengeful Capharean coast ; Th ' Eubean rocks ; the prince , whofe brother led Our armies to revenge his injur'd bed , In Egypt loft ; Ulyffes , with his men , Have feen Charybdis ...
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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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