The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 16Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 - English poetry |
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... Troy to fee , But , leaning on his lance , he vaulted on a tree ; Then , gathering up his feet , look'd down with fear , And thought his monstrous foe was still too near . Against a ftump his tufk the monster grinds , And in the fharpen ...
... Troy to fee , But , leaning on his lance , he vaulted on a tree ; Then , gathering up his feet , look'd down with fear , And thought his monstrous foe was still too near . Against a ftump his tufk the monster grinds , And in the fharpen ...
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... Troy : Himself was Hector's brother , and ( had fate But given this hopeful youth a longer date ) Perhaps had rival'd warlike Hector's worth , Though on the mother's fide of meaner birth ; Fair Alyxothoë , a country maid , Bare facus by ...
... Troy : Himself was Hector's brother , and ( had fate But given this hopeful youth a longer date ) Perhaps had rival'd warlike Hector's worth , Though on the mother's fide of meaner birth ; Fair Alyxothoë , a country maid , Bare facus by ...
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... Troy is ours , But long delays shall first afflict our powers : Nine years of labour the nine birds portend ; The tenth fhall in the town's deftruction end . The ferpent , who his maw obfcene had fill'd , The branches in his curl'd er ...
... Troy is ours , But long delays shall first afflict our powers : Nine years of labour the nine birds portend ; The tenth fhall in the town's deftruction end . The ferpent , who his maw obfcene had fill'd , The branches in his curl'd er ...
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... Troy , now nodding to her fall ; Doft thou not mourn our power employ'd in vain , And the defenders of our city flain ? To pass the reft , could noble Hector lie Unpity'd , dragg'd around his native Troy ? And yet the murderer lives ...
... Troy , now nodding to her fall ; Doft thou not mourn our power employ'd in vain , And the defenders of our city flain ? To pass the reft , could noble Hector lie Unpity'd , dragg'd around his native Troy ? And yet the murderer lives ...
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... Troy's deftruction fworn , Our brother of the war , by whom are borne Alcides ' arrows , pent in narrow bounds , With cold and hunger pinch'd , and pain'd with wounds , To find him food and cloathing , muft employ Against the birds the ...
... Troy's deftruction fworn , Our brother of the war , by whom are borne Alcides ' arrows , pent in narrow bounds , With cold and hunger pinch'd , and pain'd with wounds , To find him food and cloathing , muft employ Against the birds the ...
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