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Good unexpected , evils unforeseen , Appear by turns , as Fortune shifts the fcene : Some rais'd aloft , come tumbling down amain Then fall fo hard , they bound and rife again . If Diomede refufe his aid to lend , The great Meffapus yet ...
Good unexpected , evils unforeseen , Appear by turns , as Fortune shifts the fcene : Some rais'd aloft , come tumbling down amain Then fall fo hard , they bound and rife again . If Diomede refufe his aid to lend , The great Meffapus yet ...
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He said , and , turning fhort , with speedy pace , Cafts back a fcornful glance , and quits the place . Thou , Volufus , the Volfcian troops command To mount ; and lead thyself our Ardean band . Meffapus , and Catillus , poft your force ...
He said , and , turning fhort , with speedy pace , Cafts back a fcornful glance , and quits the place . Thou , Volufus , the Volfcian troops command To mount ; and lead thyself our Ardean band . Meffapus , and Catillus , poft your force ...
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The Tufcans take their turn to fear and fly . So fwelling furges , with a thundering roar , Driven on each other's backs , infult.the fhore ; 910 -915 930 Bound 935 Bound o'er the rocks , incroach upon the land 32 DRYDEN'S VIRGIL .
The Tufcans take their turn to fear and fly . So fwelling furges , with a thundering roar , Driven on each other's backs , infult.the fhore ; 910 -915 930 Bound 935 Bound o'er the rocks , incroach upon the land 32 DRYDEN'S VIRGIL .
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Twice were the Tufcans mafters of the field , Twice by the Latins , in their turn , repell'd . Afham'd at length , to the third charge they ran , Both hofts refolv'd , and mingled man to man : Now dying groans are heard , the fields are ...
Twice were the Tufcans mafters of the field , Twice by the Latins , in their turn , repell'd . Afham'd at length , to the third charge they ran , Both hofts refolv'd , and mingled man to man : Now dying groans are heard , the fields are ...
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At this , fo faft her flying feet she sped , That soon she strain'd beyond his horse's head : Then turning fhort , at once fhe feiz'd the rein , And laid the boafter groveling on the plain . Not with more eafe the falcon from above ...
At this , fo faft her flying feet she sped , That soon she strain'd beyond his horse's head : Then turning fhort , at once fhe feiz'd the rein , And laid the boafter groveling on the plain . Not with more eafe the falcon from above ...
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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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