Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and RomeWilliam Peter |
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... fall . The prize , the beauteous prize , I will resign , So dearly valued , and so justly mine . But since for common good I yield the fair , My private loss let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he ...
... fall . The prize , the beauteous prize , I will resign , So dearly valued , and so justly mine . But since for common good I yield the fair , My private loss let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he ...
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... fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? Him must our hosts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ? What king can bear a rival in his sway ? Grant that the gods his matchless force hath giv'n , Has foul reproach a privilege from heav ...
... fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? Him must our hosts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ? What king can bear a rival in his sway ? Grant that the gods his matchless force hath giv'n , Has foul reproach a privilege from heav ...
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... fall successive , and successive rise : So generations in their course decay , In one sad day beheld the gates of hell : While the fat herds and snowy flocks they fed , Amid their fields the hapless heroes bled ! My mother lived to bear ...
... fall successive , and successive rise : So generations in their course decay , In one sad day beheld the gates of hell : While the fat herds and snowy flocks they fed , Amid their fields the hapless heroes bled ! My mother lived to bear ...
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... fall , To sure destruction dooms th ' aspiring wall : Then , casting on his friend an ardent look , Fired with the thirst of glory , thus he spoke : Why boast we , Glaucus ! our extended reign , Where Xanthus ' streams enrich the Lycian ...
... fall , To sure destruction dooms th ' aspiring wall : Then , casting on his friend an ardent look , Fired with the thirst of glory , thus he spoke : Why boast we , Glaucus ! our extended reign , Where Xanthus ' streams enrich the Lycian ...
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... fall , and honour'd if we live , Or let us glory gain , or glory give ! DEEDS OF HECTOR . He moves a god , resistless in his course , And seems a match for more than mortal force . Then pouring after , through the gaping space , A tide ...
... fall , and honour'd if we live , Or let us glory gain , or glory give ! DEEDS OF HECTOR . He moves a god , resistless in his course , And seems a match for more than mortal force . Then pouring after , through the gaping space , A tide ...
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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