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... with purple gore : First , melting into tears , the pious man Deplor'd so fad a fight , then thus began : Unhappy youth ! when fortune gave the rest Of my full wishes , the refus'd the best ! She came ; but brought not thee along ...
... with purple gore : First , melting into tears , the pious man Deplor'd so fad a fight , then thus began : Unhappy youth ! when fortune gave the rest Of my full wishes , the refus'd the best ! She came ; but brought not thee along ...
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He dy'd no death to make thee with , too late , Thou hadst not liv'd to fee his fhameful fate . But what a champion has th ' Aufonian coaft , And what a friend hast thou , Ascanius , lost ! ༡༠ Thus having mourn'd , he gave the word ...
He dy'd no death to make thee with , too late , Thou hadst not liv'd to fee his fhameful fate . But what a champion has th ' Aufonian coaft , And what a friend hast thou , Ascanius , lost ! ༡༠ Thus having mourn'd , he gave the word ...
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230 To fight with caution , not to tempt the fword , I warn'd thee , but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue : That boiling blood would carry thee too far ; Young as thou wert in dangers , raw to war !
230 To fight with caution , not to tempt the fword , I warn'd thee , but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue : That boiling blood would carry thee too far ; Young as thou wert in dangers , raw to war !
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That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign'd ; In which the Tufcan chiefs and army join'd : Great spoils , and trophies gain'd by thee , they bear : Then let thy own atchievements be thy fhare . Ev'n thou , O Turnus , hadst a trophy ...
That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign'd ; In which the Tufcan chiefs and army join'd : Great spoils , and trophies gain'd by thee , they bear : Then let thy own atchievements be thy fhare . Ev'n thou , O Turnus , hadst a trophy ...
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O curfed caufe of all our ills , muft we Wage wars unjuft , and fall in fight thee ! What right haft thou to rule the Latian state , And fend us out to meet our certain fate ? ' Tis a deftructive war : from Turnus ' hand Our peace and ...
O curfed caufe of all our ills , muft we Wage wars unjuft , and fall in fight thee ! What right haft thou to rule the Latian state , And fend us out to meet our certain fate ? ' Tis a deftructive war : from Turnus ' hand Our peace 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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