Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and RomeWilliam Peter |
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... means identical with those in use in every country ; not speculating clandestinely on the probable amount of truth in metaphysical or religious systems ; -the poet , taking his stand , as he did , upon the sure ground of human passion ...
... means identical with those in use in every country ; not speculating clandestinely on the probable amount of truth in metaphysical or religious systems ; -the poet , taking his stand , as he did , upon the sure ground of human passion ...
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... mean to give : When all thy wretched crew have felt my power , Noman shall be the last I will devour . He said , then nodding with the fumes of wine Dropp'd his huge head , and snoring lay supine . His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder ...
... mean to give : When all thy wretched crew have felt my power , Noman shall be the last I will devour . He said , then nodding with the fumes of wine Dropp'd his huge head , and snoring lay supine . His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder ...
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... means the most poetical in the poem ; and yet I think few persons can read it , without feeling its genuine beauty . It is where Venus , having won the heart of Anchises in the form of a Sylvan maid , now appears to him in her own ...
... means the most poetical in the poem ; and yet I think few persons can read it , without feeling its genuine beauty . It is where Venus , having won the heart of Anchises in the form of a Sylvan maid , now appears to him in her own ...
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... means of those Fables for which he is so celebrated , and which have associated his name with that pleasing branch of composition through all succeeding ages . The following is the only elegiac strain of his that has come down to us ...
... means of those Fables for which he is so celebrated , and which have associated his name with that pleasing branch of composition through all succeeding ages . The following is the only elegiac strain of his that has come down to us ...
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... means are great ; Abroad you will retain a poor estate . Unostentatious , indigent , and scant , You live secure , at least , from utter want . POVERTY . FOR noble minds , the worst of miseries , Worse than old age , or wearisome ...
... means are great ; Abroad you will retain a poor estate . Unostentatious , indigent , and scant , You live secure , at least , from utter want . POVERTY . FOR noble minds , the worst of miseries , Worse than old age , or wearisome ...
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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