Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and RomeWilliam Peter |
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... deep impression from the forms and influences of a national mythology ; and therefore it is , that , while in their historians , their orators , and even their philoso- phers we may , for the most part , recognise the Greeks and Romans ...
... deep impression from the forms and influences of a national mythology ; and therefore it is , that , while in their historians , their orators , and even their philoso- phers we may , for the most part , recognise the Greeks and Romans ...
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... deep resentment rag'd . To wait his will the sacred heralds stood , Talthybius and Eurybates the good . Haste to the ... deep he hung , That kindred deep from whence his mother sprung ; There , bath'd in tears of anger and disdain , Thus ...
... deep resentment rag'd . To wait his will the sacred heralds stood , Talthybius and Eurybates the good . Haste to the ... deep he hung , That kindred deep from whence his mother sprung ; There , bath'd in tears of anger and disdain , Thus ...
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... Deep midst the waves , his ocean - palace stands ; — There , brazen - hoof'd , gold - maned , to their fleet car His steeds he yokes , and arms himself for war , Grasps the bright scourge , and forth , in gold array , Swift , through ...
... Deep midst the waves , his ocean - palace stands ; — There , brazen - hoof'd , gold - maned , to their fleet car His steeds he yokes , and arms himself for war , Grasps the bright scourge , and forth , in gold array , Swift , through ...
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... deep trench , and pales of tin enclos'd . One path alone there led , along whose way Ceas'd not the gatherers thro ' the live - long day : Youths and fair girls , who , gladdening in the toil , In woven panniers bore the nectar spoil ...
... deep trench , and pales of tin enclos'd . One path alone there led , along whose way Ceas'd not the gatherers thro ' the live - long day : Youths and fair girls , who , gladdening in the toil , In woven panniers bore the nectar spoil ...
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... Deep in the dismal regions of the dead , The infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head , Leap'd from his throne , lest Neptune's arm should lay Shouts of applause run rattling through the skies . ( For the good king , like thee , was ever ...
... Deep in the dismal regions of the dead , The infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head , Leap'd from his throne , lest Neptune's arm should lay Shouts of applause run rattling through the skies . ( For the good king , like thee , was ever ...
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