Oh fire ! oh country, once with glory crown'd ! Oh wretched race of Priam, once renown'd ! Oh Jove ! fee Ilion fmoaking on the ground ! They now name Ceres for the golden grain, Bacchus for wine, and Neptune for the main : Or from the father's name point... The Works of the English Poets: Broome and Pitt - Page 363by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
| Marco Girolamo Vida - 1725 - 134 pages
...trembles with the found. Or with repeated accents they relate The fall of Troy, and dwell upon her fate, * Oh fire! oh country, once with glory crown'd; Oh wretched race of \Priam, once renown'd ! Oh Jove ! fee Ilium fmoaking on the ground 1 THEY now name Ceres for the golden grain, Bacchus for wine, and Neptune... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 364 pages
...with the found; Or with repeated accents they relate The fall of Troy, and dwell upon her fate; •(- Oh fire! oh country, once with glory crown'd! Oh wretched...point out the fon; Or for her people introduce a town: So when alarm'd her natives dread their fates, Pale Afric makes, and trembles through her ftates: And... | |
| 1813 - 334 pages
...country, once with glory crown'd Oh wretched race of Piiam, once renown'd ! Oh Jove! see I lion smoking on the ground ! They now name Ceres for the golden...the main : Or from the father's name point out the sou; Or for her people introduce a town : So when alarm'd her natives dread their fate?, Pale Afric... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 344 pages
...the sound; Or with repeated accents they relate The fall of Troy, and dwell upon her fate; Oh sire'! Oh country, once with glory crown'd! Oh wretched race of Priam, once renown'd! Oh Jove! see Ilion smoking on the ground! They now name Ceres for the golden grain, Bacchus for wine, and Neptune... | |
| Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1892 - 378 pages
...mora, bis vocem ingeminant, urbisque ruinas, Fataque, pneliaque, et sortem execrantur iniquam, 120 Bacchus for wine, and Neptune for the main; Or from the father's name point out the son; Or for her people introduce a town : So when alarmed her natives dread their fates, Pale Afric... | |
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