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... live thy slave , and still to serve in vain , Should I submit to each unjust decree : Command thy vassals , but command not me . Seize on Briseis , whom the Grecians doom'd My prize of war , yet tamely see resum'd : And seize secure ...
... live thy slave , and still to serve in vain , Should I submit to each unjust decree : Command thy vassals , but command not me . Seize on Briseis , whom the Grecians doom'd My prize of war , yet tamely see resum'd : And seize secure ...
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... 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 of Trojans flows , and ...
... 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 of Trojans flows , and ...
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... live - long day : Youths and fair girls , who , gladdening in the toil , In woven panniers bore the nectar spoil : - Sweet struck the lyre a boy amid the throng , And chanted with shrill voice the Linus - song ; While the gay chorus ...
... live - long day : Youths and fair girls , who , gladdening in the toil , In woven panniers bore the nectar spoil : - Sweet struck the lyre a boy amid the throng , And chanted with shrill voice the Linus - song ; While the gay chorus ...
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... live in endless praise , Resolv'd I stand ; and haply had survey'd The godlike Theseus , and Perithous ' shade ; But swarms of spectres rose from deepest hell , With bloodless visage , and with hideous yell , Thoy scream , they shriek ...
... live in endless praise , Resolv'd I stand ; and haply had survey'd The godlike Theseus , and Perithous ' shade ; But swarms of spectres rose from deepest hell , With bloodless visage , and with hideous yell , Thoy scream , they shriek ...
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... live happy in thy endless love ; Nor should I e'er have cause to dread the day , When I must mourn thy loss and life's decay : But thou , alas ! too soon and sure must bend , Beneath the woes which painful age attend ; Inexorable age ...
... live happy in thy endless love ; Nor should I e'er have cause to dread the day , When I must mourn thy loss and life's decay : But thou , alas ! too soon and sure must bend , Beneath the woes which painful age attend ; Inexorable age ...
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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