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1 Would I your juftice or your force exprefs , Thought can but equal ; and all words are less : 190 Your answer we fhall thankfully relate , And favours granted to the Latian state : If wifh'd fuccefs your labour fhall attend , Think ...
1 Would I your juftice or your force exprefs , Thought can but equal ; and all words are less : 190 Your answer we fhall thankfully relate , And favours granted to the Latian state : If wifh'd fuccefs your labour fhall attend , Think ...
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The gods , he saw , efpous'd the juster side , When late their titles in the field were try'd : 360 } 345 350 355 Thus , full of anxious thought , he fummons all The Latian senate to the council - hall : The The princes come , commanded ...
The gods , he saw , efpous'd the juster side , When late their titles in the field were try'd : 360 } 345 350 355 Thus , full of anxious thought , he fummons all The Latian senate to the council - hall : The The princes come , commanded ...
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... fierce virago fix'd his eyes : Then thus return'd : O grace of Italy , With what becoming thanks can I reply ! Not only words lie labouring in my breast ; But thought itself is by thy praise oppreft ; Yet rob me not of all , but let ...
... fierce virago fix'd his eyes : Then thus return'd : O grace of Italy , With what becoming thanks can I reply ! Not only words lie labouring in my breast ; But thought itself is by thy praise oppreft ; Yet rob me not of all , but let ...
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With her drawn fword defies him to the field : And , marching , lifts aloft her maiden shield : The youth , who thought his cunning did fucceed , Reins round his horfe , and urges all his speed , Adds the remembrance of the fpur ...
With her drawn fword defies him to the field : And , marching , lifts aloft her maiden shield : The youth , who thought his cunning did fucceed , Reins round his horfe , and urges all his speed , Adds the remembrance of the fpur ...
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... mix'd with thane , his foul opprefs'd ; 970 And conscious worth lay labouring in his thought : And love , by jealoufy , to madness wrought . By flow degrees his reafon drove away The mifts of paffion , and resum'd her sway .
... mix'd with thane , his foul opprefs'd ; 970 And conscious worth lay labouring in his thought : And love , by jealoufy , to madness wrought . By flow degrees his reafon drove away The mifts of paffion , and resum'd her sway .
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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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