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" Each. single Greek, in this conclusive strife, Stands on the sharpest edge of death or life': Yet if my years thy kind regard engage, Employ thy youth as I employ my age ; Succeed to these my cares, and rouse the rest ; He serves me most, who serves his... "
The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope - Page 219
by Homerus - 1808
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Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ...

1805 - 378 pages
...the last despair surrounds our host, No hour must pass, no moment must be lost ; Each single chief in this conclusive strife Stands on the sharpest edge...employ my age. Succeed to these my cares, and rouse the restv , He serves me most, who serves his country best." He spoke ; the chieftain o'er his shoulders...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 41

John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...subjects and my sons might hear ' Their loyal thoughts and pious loves conspire, i To ease a sov'reign, and relieve a sire. ' But now the last despair surrounds...thy youth as I employ my age ; ' Succeed to these i«y cares, and rouse the rest; 200 ' lie serves me most, who serves his country best.' This said,...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...a sire. But now the last despair surrounds our host; No hour must pass, no moment must be lost; 1g5 Each single Greek, in this conclusive strife, Stands on the sharpest edge of death or life : Vet, if my years thy kind regard engage, Employ thy youth as I employ my age ; Succeed to these my...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...relieve a sire. But now the last despair surrounds our host ; Ko hour must pass, no moment must be lest ; Each single Greek, in this conclusive! strife, Stands...of death or life : Yet, if my years thy kind regard encage, Employ thy youth as I employ my age : Succeed to these my cares, and rouse the rest ; He serves...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...relieve a sire. But now the last despair surrounds our host ; No hour must pass, no moment must be lost ; Each single Greek, in this conclusive strife, Stands on the sharpest edge of death or life : Yet, if rny years thy kind regard engage, Employ thy youth as 1 employ my age : Succeed to these my cares,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...no moment must be lost ; Each sinslt; Greek, in this conclusive strife, Stands on the sharpest «Ige of death or life : Yet, if my years thy kind regard engage, Employ thy youth us I employ my age : Succeed to these my cates, and гонке the rest ; He serves me most, who serves...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 1

1813 - 352 pages
...a sire : But now the last despair surrounds our host ; No hour must pass, no moment must be lost ; Each single Greek, in this conclusive strife, Stands...age ; Succeed to these my cares, and rouse the rest ; He serves me most, who serves his country best.' This said, the hero o'er his shoulders flung ) A...
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The life of the right reverend father in God, Jeremy Taylor, D.D.: chaplain ...

Henry Kaye Bonney - 1815 - 422 pages
...she hath " no appeal in the causes of unkindness. And " though the man can run from many hours * " Each single Greek, in this conclusive strife, " Stands on the sharpest edge of death or life." *' of his sadness, yet he must return to it " again, and when he sits among his neigh" hours, he remembers...
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The British Prose Writers...: Fitzosborne's letters

1821 - 336 pages
...the spirit of his author ; and, at the same time, humoured the different state of his own countrymen. Each single Greek, in this conclusive strife, Stands on the sharpest edge of death or life. And now, Orontes, do you not think it high time to be dismissed from this fairy land ? Permit me, however,...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1

Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...relieve a sire: But now the last despair surrounds our host; No hour must pass, no moment must be lost; Each single Greek, in this conclusive strife, Stands...age: Succeed to these my cares, and rouse the rest; He serves me most who serves his country best." This said, the hero o'er his shoulders flung ~\ A lion's...
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