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... Youth and Age ... . The Evils of Mortality . IBYCUS .... To Euryale .. The Influence of Spring .. 44 Epitaph for himself ........... Charles Merivale . 56 From the Chained Prometheus . Potter . 56 The wide Earth echoes ... Sir E. Bulwer ...
... Youth and Age ... . The Evils of Mortality . IBYCUS .... To Euryale .. The Influence of Spring .. 44 Epitaph for himself ........... Charles Merivale . 56 From the Chained Prometheus . Potter . 56 The wide Earth echoes ... Sir E. Bulwer ...
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... Youth of Fair Promise . Another on the same .. PALLADAS All the World's a Stage Marriage Hodgson , 269 W. Peter . 269 · J . H. Merivale . 269 .Robert Bland . 270 J. H. Merivale . 270 • Robert Bland . 270 • Fawkes . 270 270 Robert Bland ...
... Youth of Fair Promise . Another on the same .. PALLADAS All the World's a Stage Marriage Hodgson , 269 W. Peter . 269 · J . H. Merivale . 269 .Robert Bland . 270 J. H. Merivale . 270 • Robert Bland . 270 • Fawkes . 270 270 Robert Bland ...
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... youth my hardy days I led ; Fir'd with the thirst which virtuous envy breeds , And smit with love of honourable deeds . Strongest of men , they pierc'd the mountain boar , Rang'd the wild deserts red with monster's gore , And from their ...
... youth my hardy days I led ; Fir'd with the thirst which virtuous envy breeds , And smit with love of honourable deeds . Strongest of men , they pierc'd the mountain boar , Rang'd the wild deserts red with monster's gore , And from their ...
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... youth , now withering on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies ; They 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 ...
... youth , now withering on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies ; They 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 ...
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... Youths and fair girls , who , gladdening in the toil , In woven panniers bore the nectar spoil : - Sweet struck the ... youth a glossy tunic glow'd ; Those wreath'd with flowers , while from their partners hung , Swords that , all gold ...
... Youths and fair girls , who , gladdening in the toil , In woven panniers bore the nectar spoil : - Sweet struck the ... youth a glossy tunic glow'd ; Those wreath'd with flowers , while from their partners hung , Swords that , all gold ...
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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