Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and RomeWilliam Peter |
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... give Chryseïs to these arms again : If mercy fail , yet let my presents move , And dread avenging Phœbus , son of Jove . The Greeks in shouts their joint assent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair . Not so Atrides ...
... give Chryseïs to these arms again : If mercy fail , yet let my presents move , And dread avenging Phœbus , son of Jove . The Greeks in shouts their joint assent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair . Not so Atrides ...
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... give Chryseïs to these arms again : If mercy fail , yet let my presents move , And dread avenging Phoebus , son of Jove . The Greeks in shouts their joint assent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair . Not so Atrides ...
... give Chryseïs to these arms again : If mercy fail , yet let my presents move , And dread avenging Phoebus , son of Jove . The Greeks in shouts their joint assent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair . Not so Atrides ...
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... give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we 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 ...
... give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we 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 ...
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... give me more , he cried : the boon be thine , A deed so rash had finish'd all our fate , No mortal forces from the lofty gate Could roll the rock . In hopeless grief we lay , And sigh , expecting the return of day . Now did the rosy ...
... give me more , he cried : the boon be thine , A deed so rash had finish'd all our fate , No mortal forces from the lofty gate Could roll the rock . In hopeless grief we lay , And sigh , expecting the return of day . Now did the rosy ...
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... give , As one , for whose conception I must grieve ! " " After telling the story of Tithonus , Venus goes on in a ... give up Proserpine . Pluto obeys , but gives her a pomegranate seed to eat , and the conclusion is , that Ceres is ...
... give , As one , for whose conception I must grieve ! " " After telling the story of Tithonus , Venus goes on in a ... give up Proserpine . Pluto obeys , but gives her a pomegranate seed to eat , and the conclusion is , that Ceres is ...
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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