Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and RomeWilliam Peter |
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... eyes . Descends Minerva in her guardian care , A heavenly witness of the wrongs I bear From Atreus ' son ! then let those eyes that view The daring crime , behold the vengeance too . Forbear ! ( the progeny of Jove replies , ) To calm ...
... eyes . Descends Minerva in her guardian care , A heavenly witness of the wrongs I bear From Atreus ' son ! then let those eyes that view The daring crime , behold the vengeance too . Forbear ! ( the progeny of Jove replies , ) To calm ...
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... eyes Cast. Go , lest the haughty partner of my sway With jealous eyes thy close access survey ; But part in peace , secure thy prayer is sped ; Witness the sacred honours of our head , The nod that ratifies the will divine , The faithful ...
... eyes Cast. Go , lest the haughty partner of my sway With jealous eyes thy close access survey ; But part in peace , secure thy prayer is sped ; Witness the sacred honours of our head , The nod that ratifies the will divine , The faithful ...
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... eyes , and say what Greek is he ( Far as from hence these aged eyes can see ) Around whose brow such martial graces shine , So tall , so awful , and almost divine ? Though some of loftier stature tread the green , None match his ...
... eyes , and say what Greek is he ( Far as from hence these aged eyes can see ) Around whose brow such martial graces shine , So tall , so awful , and almost divine ? Though some of loftier stature tread the green , None match his ...
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... eyes our martial bands Behold our deeds transcending our commands , Such , they may cry , deserve the sovereign state , Whom those that envy , dare not imitate ! Could all our care elude the gloomy grave , Which claims no less the ...
... eyes our martial bands Behold our deeds transcending our commands , Such , they may cry , deserve the sovereign state , Whom those that envy , dare not imitate ! Could all our care elude the gloomy grave , Which claims no less the ...
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... eyes , flakes after flakes incessantly descending ; So thicke helmes , curets , ashen darts , and round shields never - ending , Flowed from the navie's hollow wombe ; their splendors gave heaven's eye His beames againe ; earth laugh'd ...
... eyes , flakes after flakes incessantly descending ; So thicke helmes , curets , ashen darts , and round shields never - ending , Flowed from the navie's hollow wombe ; their splendors gave heaven's eye His beames againe ; earth laugh'd ...
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Adic Admetus Alcmena Amph Amphitryon Antistrophe arms Athens bear behold Bleps blest breast breath charms Chor CHORUS Chrem Cleon Clytemnestra Creon Dæm dark daughter dead dear death deeds Demus didst dost thou dread e'en earth Eteocles Eucl Euripides eyes fair fate father fear flame friends give goddess gods grace Greece grief hand hath head hear heart heaven honour Jove Jupiter king Labr Laius live lord maid Merc Mess mighty mortal mother Muses ne'er never night nymph o'er Palæstra Peleus Phei Plut Plutus poet Polybus Polynices rich round sacred SCENE shalt shore slave sleep song sorrow soul speak Streps Strob STROBILUS sweet tears tell Thebes thee Theocritus Theseus thine thou art tomb Trach Twas Tynd Venus virgin voice wave wife wine words wretch youth