A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey. West's Pindar. Dryden's Virgil. Persius & Juvenal. Pitt's Aeneid. Rowe's LucanJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1792 |
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... flames afpire ; The youths with inftruments furround the fire : The thighs thus facrific'd , and entrails dreft , Th ... flame . Say , artful manager of heaven ( fhe cries ) Who now partakes the fecrets of the skies ? Thy Juno knows not ...
... flames afpire ; The youths with inftruments furround the fire : The thighs thus facrific'd , and entrails dreft , Th ... flame . Say , artful manager of heaven ( fhe cries ) Who now partakes the fecrets of the skies ? Thy Juno knows not ...
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... flames aspire While the fat victim feeds the facred fire . The thighs thus facrific'd , and entrails dreft , Th ' afliftants part , transfix , and roaft the reft ; Then spread the tables , the repast prepare , Each takes his feat , and ...
... flames aspire While the fat victim feeds the facred fire . The thighs thus facrific'd , and entrails dreft , Th ' afliftants part , transfix , and roaft the reft ; Then spread the tables , the repast prepare , Each takes his feat , and ...
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... flames of fight . They turn , they stand , the Greeks their fury dare , Condense their powers , and wait the growing war . As when , on Ceres ' facred floor the fwain Spreads the wide fan to clear the golden grain And the light chaff ...
... flames of fight . They turn , they stand , the Greeks their fury dare , Condense their powers , and wait the growing war . As when , on Ceres ' facred floor the fwain Spreads the wide fan to clear the golden grain And the light chaff ...
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... flame , and victims fall ; Nor fhall , I truft , the matrons holy train And reverend elders , feek the Gods in vain . This ... flames expire ; Her gaping throat emits infernal fire . This peft he flaughter'd ( for he read the skies , And ...
... flame , and victims fall ; Nor fhall , I truft , the matrons holy train And reverend elders , feek the Gods in vain . This ... flames expire ; Her gaping throat emits infernal fire . This peft he flaughter'd ( for he read the skies , And ...
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... flames be fed With heroes corpfe ; I war not with the dead : Go fearch your flaughter'd chiefs on yonder plain , And gratify the manes of the flain : Be witnefs , Jove , whofe thunder rolls on high ! He faid , and rear'd his fceptre to ...
... flames be fed With heroes corpfe ; I war not with the dead : Go fearch your flaughter'd chiefs on yonder plain , And gratify the manes of the flain : Be witnefs , Jove , whofe thunder rolls on high ! He faid , and rear'd his fceptre to ...
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