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The hollow helmet rings against the plain. Swift as a vulture leaping on his prey, From his torn arm the Grecian rent away The reeking javelin, and rejoin'd his friends. His wounded brother good Polites tends; Around his waist his pious arms he threw, And from the rage of battle gently drew: Him his swift coursers, on his splendid car, Rapt from the lessening thunder of the war; To Troy they drove him, groaning from the shore, And sprinkling, as he pass'd, the sands with gore.
[pg 245] Meanwhile fresh slaughter bathes the sanguine ground, Heaps fall on heaps, and heaven and earth resound. Bold Aphareus by great Æneas bled; As toward the chief he turn'd his daring head, He pierced his throat; the bending head, depress'd Beneath his helmet, nods upon his breast; His shield reversed o'er the fallen warrior lies, And everlasting slumber seals his eyes. Antilochus, as Thoon turn'd him round, Transpierced his back with a dishonest wound: The hollow vein, that to the neck extends
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The
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with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alo
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BOOK XVI. BOOK XVII. BOOK XVIII. BO
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VENUS, DISGUISED, INVITING HELEN TO
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GREEK SHIELD. BACCHUS. AJAX DEFENDI
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[pg ix] INTRODUCTION. Scepticism is
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cures in the Church. History and tr
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in which critics will allow us to b
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all written tradition, concerning t
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theis to manage his household, and
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they reached Ithaca. Here Melesigen
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heard him recite, acquainted him wi
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al habit. Whereupon Homer addressed
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[pg xv] Chandler, 12 "the most curi
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ecognized by a Samian, who had met
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is involved. With no less truth and
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orial office compels us to give som
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Are things which Kuster, Burmann, W
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to deal, and with the following bol
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and his associates, in reference to
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ler difficulty by running into a gr
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[pg xx] "At what period," continues
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the narrowest reading class in Gree
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still comparatively few, might have
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meric age, however the irregular us
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later, and it may fairly be suspect
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Olysseid. Could France have given b
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mann's 28 modification of his theor
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period of its first compilation." T
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ternal as external, enable us to ju
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of Peisistratus, while its historic
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next followed, as it aided the memo
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ship of the Homeric poems. To deny
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the history of a thousand minute po
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the capabilities of the same gentle
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nobling impulses of the soul; and t
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crowd in one mighty vision, or reve
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eading an heroic poem we must trans
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his nation the mirror, in which the
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Can we contemplate that ancient mon
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cient wit, the author of which was
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can see, with as much reason to Hom
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of the contradictory versions alrea
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er, I might have brought a large am
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POPE'S PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOME
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Our author's work is a wild paradis
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wheel, by its own rapidity. Exact d
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for his imagination, and created a
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of story. If he has given a regular
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head, are by no means for their inv
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his own, that no painter could have
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thus, or the rest, In like manner i
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ion, that it was in this part Homer
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pecially, that he has scarce any co
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managed them) they are a sort of su
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that harmony which makes us confess
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Thus on whatever side we contemplat
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pours out his riches with a boundle
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make, commit something near extrava
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lent, as they are more contrary to
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fices then believed to belong to th
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of as they occur in the course of t
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make those accidents (such as the c
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lopped into form to give it a more
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aising and improving their author.
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at all. Simplicity is the mean betw
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antique cast. But certainly the use
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are introduced. For example, the ep
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they be tedious, the author is to a
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perhaps he endeavoured to strain th
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in. He seems to have had too much r
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attentively in comparison with Virg
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finite pleasure, the many friendly
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thor of the tragedy of "Heroic Love
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have experienced the candour and fr
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BOOK I. ARGUMENT. 40 THE CONTENTION
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[pg 002] the Æthiopians, at whose
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Extends the sceptre and the laurel
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Till time shall rifle every youthfu
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The pyres, thick-flaming, shot a di
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That sacred seer, whose comprehensi
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Not e'en the chief by whom our host
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To teach the Greeks to murmur at th
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The due reward of many a wellfought
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[pg 007] The man who suffers, loudl
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Inglorious slave to interest, ever
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[pg 008] Though mine the sweat and
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Go, threat thy earth-born Myrmidons
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[pg 009] Minerva swift descended fr
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"Forbear (the progeny of Jove repli
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And joins the sacred senate of the
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By this I swear:—when bleeding Gr
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Who thus with mild benevolence bega
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Do you, young warriors, hear my age
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A well-rigg'd ship for Chrysa's sac
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[pg 013] Pensive they walk along th
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Unskill'd to judge the future by th
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Sure to so short a race of glory bo
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The priest of Phoebus sought by gif
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But now he seized Briseis' heavenly
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The affrighted gods confess'd their
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Why have I borne thee with a mother
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Then down the steep she plunged fro
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Then near the altar of the darting
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The choicest morsels lay from every
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The parted ocean foams and roars be
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The thunderer sat; where old Olympu
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Thus Thetis spoke; but Jove in sile
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He spoke, and awful bends his sable
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The sacred counsels of almighty min
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That strives to learn what heaven r
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The feast disturb'd, with sorrow Vu
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Once in your cause I felt his match
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[pg 025] BOOK II. ARGUMENT. THE TRI
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to the poet to enumerate all the fo
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And nodding Ilion waits the impendi
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[pg 027] To whom its safety a whole
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What scenes of grief, and numbers o
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[pg 028] A dream divine appear'd be
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Now, valiant chiefs! since heaven i
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Subjects all Argos, and controls th
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Must want a Trojan slave to pour th
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Before the blast the lofty harvests
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Haste, goddess, haste! the flying h
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Thus graced, attention and respect
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[pg 032] With words like these the
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And much he hated all, but most the
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[pg 033] Some captive fair, to bles
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The man who acts the least, upbraid
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While to his neighbour each express
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Till Troy's proud structures should
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Straight to the tree his sanguine s
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Thus spoke the prophet, thus the Fa
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[pg 036] And thunder rolling shook
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In arts of counsel, and in speaking
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[pg 037] With the huge shield each
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Then wise Ulysses in his rank was p
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The thighs, selected to the gods, d
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Blazed on her arm, and lighten'd al
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With rushing troops the plains are
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Jove o'er his eyes celestial glorie
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NEPTUNE. The hardy warriors whom Bo
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[pg 041] For flocks Erythrae, Gliss
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Where Anemoria's stately turrets sh
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The fair Caristos, and the Styrian
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Or close the embodied host in firm
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And Ægion, and Adrastus' ancient r
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While vainly fond, in fancy oft he
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[pg 044] Where the fat herds in ple
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Diores sprung from Amarynceus' line
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[pg 045] He led the warriors from t
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And saw their blooming warriors ear
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Next thirty galleys cleave the liqu
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Then, when the chief the Theban wal
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Where hills incircle Boebe's lowly
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Or where Ithome, rough with rocks,
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Where cold Dodona lifts her holy tr
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[pg 049] The foreign troops: this d
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(A mortal mixing with the queen of
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Thy groves of box, Cytorus! ever gr
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And proud Miletus, came the Carian
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[pg 051] BOOK III. ARGUMENT. THE DU
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Moves into ranks, and stretches o'e
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Now front to front the hostile armi
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Smit with a conscious sense, retire
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When Greece beheld thy painted canv
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Then with his spear restrain'd the
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[pg 055] Within the lines they drew
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So dreadful late, and furious for t
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[pg 056] Lean'd on the walls and ba
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But lift thy eyes, and say, what Gr
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[pg 057] "O bless'd Atrides! born t
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Then Helen thus: "Whom your discern
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Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd
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One bold on foot, and one renown'd
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Thus with a lasting league our toil
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Eternal Jove! and you bright orb th
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[pg 060] "Hear, mighty Jove! and he
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The lists of combat, and the ground
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Destroy the aggressor, aid my right
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[pg Struggling he followed, while t
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The goddess softly shook her silken
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VENUS PRESENTING HELEN TO PARIS. Th
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Then, all dispersing, various tasks
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These softer moments let delights e
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Be therefore now the Spartan wealth
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Map, titled "Graeciae Antiquae".
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Menelaus, who is wounded, but cured
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THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS. "Shall the
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That Troy, and Troy's whole race th
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At this the goddess rolled her radi
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And the proud Trojans first infring
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(In shape a mortal,) pass'd disguis
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'Twas form'd of horn, and smooth'd
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The gods forget not, nor thy guardi
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[pg 073] To whom the king: "My brot
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The shaft he drew, but left the hea
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[pg 074] Jove is with Greece, and l
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And clasp'd the warrior to his arme
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[pg 075] A cloud of heroes blacken'
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Then to the next the general bends
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Our great forefathers held this pru
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The solemn council best becomes the
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And quivering in his heaving bosom
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[pg 083] BOOK V. ARGUMENT. THE ACTS
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But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspir
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And first bold Phegeus cast his sou
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While we from interdicted fields re
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[pg 085] And everlasting shades his
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The hapless artist, while confused
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[pg 086] Which stain'd with sacred
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His bended bow against the chief he
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O give my lance to reach the Trojan
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With tenfold ardour now invades the
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Though now determined by Tydides' s
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Exploring Pandarus with careful eye
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And turns unseen the frustrate dart
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"Too late, O friend! my rashness I
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[pg 090] "O friend! two chiefs of f
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That both shall fall by one victori
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His danger views with anguish and d
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The raging chief in chase of Venus
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The fainting chief, and wards the m
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And show'd the wound by fierce Tydi
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[pg 094] Then she: "This insult fro
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[pg 095] From fields of death when
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[pg 096] So spoke the god who darts
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The god of battle issues on the pla
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Far distant hence I held my wide co
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On earth he leaps, his brazen armou
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Each Trojan bosom with new warmth h
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Dispersed and broken through the ru
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In dust Orsilochus and Crethon laid
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[pg 099] He thus advancing, Nestor'
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Meanwhile his temples feel a deadly
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[pg 100] And foam impervious 'cross
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His massy spear with matchless fury
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[pg 101] Sheathed in bright arms ea
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I make this present to the shades b
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Thy angry lance; which piercing to
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My helpless corpse, an unassisted p
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Stretch'd in their blood, lay gaspi
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[pg 103] Rich with immortal gold th
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Jove's cuirass blazes on her ample
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Commission'd in alternate watch the
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"Go! and the great Minerva be thy a
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The goddess leaning o'er the bendin
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[pg 106] For Mars, the homicide, th
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DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS. J
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Loud as the roar encountering armie
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All heaven beside reveres thy sover
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Juno and Pallas mount the bless'd a
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Dark showers of javelins fly from f
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By great Euryalus was Dresus slain,
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A goat's rough body bore a lion's h
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[pg 115] (Fair e'en in heavenly eye
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Thus ever let us meet, with kind em
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[pg 116] We guard the friendship of
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In fifty chambers lodged: and rooms
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[pg 117] Inflaming wine, pernicious
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That pest of Troy, that ruin of our
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[pg 118] They fill the dome with su
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The steely point with golden ringle
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[pg 119] "Brother, 'tis just, (repl
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"Oh, generous brother! (if the guil
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Urge thou thy knight to march where
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"By the same arm my seven brave bro
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Not all my brothers gasping on the
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[pg 124] She mingled with a smile a
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The battle renewing with double ard
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Fierce she descends: Apollo marked
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At this agreed, the heavenly powers
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The thronging troops obscure the du
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But let my body, to my friends retu
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[pg 130] Go then! resolve to earth,
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And next his bulk gigantic Ajax rea
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Grant thou, that Telamon may bear a
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As from a brazen tower, o'erlook'd
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To combat born, and bred amidst ala
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The blunted point against the buckl
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[pg 135] The sacred ministers of ea
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Let him demand the sanction of the
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He gave the Greek. The generous Gre
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When now the rage of hunger was rem
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So Greece to combat shall in safety
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But sound ungrateful in a warrior's
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And whose the conquest, mighty Jove
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[pg 138] The Greeks gave ear, but n
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Some search the plains, some fell t
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[pg 139] About the dying flames the
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Those radiant structures raised by
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[pg 140] With Bacchus' blessings ch
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[pg 141] GREEK AMPHORA—WINE VESSE
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Teucer, who is at length wounded by
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Back to the skies with shame he sha
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The all-mighty spoke, nor durst the
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Between the extended earth and star
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The sounding darts in iron tempests
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Nor each stern Ajax, thunderbolts o
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The glory of the Greeks, the Pylian
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Thus said the chief; and Nestor, sk
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The quivering steeds fell prostrate
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Not those who felt thy arm, the Dar
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Great Hector heard; he saw the flas
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And all your master's well-spent ca
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And see his Trojans to the shades d
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[pg 148] To Ajax and Achilles reach
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His vows, in bitterness of soul pre
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[pg The Atridae first, the Ajaces n
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The ranks grow thinner as his arrow
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Headlong he falls: his sudden fall
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Or in the trench on heaps confusedl
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When to grim Pluto's gloomy gates h
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[pg 152] The radiant robe her sacre
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JUNO AND MINERVA GOING TO ASSIST TH
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From Ida's top her golden wings dis
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She flew; and Juno thus her rage re
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[pg 154] THE HOURS TAKING THE HORSE
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Who shall the sovereign of the skie
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The goddess thus; and thus the god
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And drew behind the cloudy veil of
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[pg 156] Our steeds to forage, and
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The insidious foe the naked town in
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[pg 157] Shall crush the Greeks, an
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O'er the dark trees a yellower verd
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THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES.
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cil summoned to deliberate what mea
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[pg 160] Himself his orders to the
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And towers and armies humbles to th
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They gave thee not—a brave and vi
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Still first to act what you advise
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With Thracian wines recruit thy hon
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The king of men, on public counsels
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You wronged the man, by men and god
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Seven lovely captives of the Lesbia
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Yet more—three daughters in my co
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Who feels no mercy, and who hears n
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[pg 165] The monarch thus. The reve
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And large libations drench'd the sa
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Placed in his tent, attends the lof
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The brazen vase Automedon sustains,
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[pg 167] Not those more honour'd wh
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And must we, gods! our heads inglor
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[pg 168] If thou wilt yield to grea
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These instant shall be thine; and i
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Æpea fair, the pastures Hira yield
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What in my secret soul is understoo
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And sweat laborious days in dust an
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Slave as she was, my soul adored th
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[pg 171] The wealth he left for thi
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Not all the golden tides of wealth
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Content with just hereditary sway;
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Bid all your counsels, all your arm
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Attend the stern reply. Then Phoeni
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To shine in councils, and in camps
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They daily feast, with draughts of
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And Phoenix felt a father's joys in
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[pg 175] Due honours to the seed of
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This beast (when many a chief his t
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[pg 176] She beat the ground, and c
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The matrons ravish'd, the whole rac
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One should our interests and our pa
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And gifts can conquer every soul bu
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There cease his battle, and there f
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"Say what success? divine Laertes'
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With sorrow seized, in consternatio
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Then each to Heaven the due libatio
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and contriving all possible methods
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[pg 181] Sighs following sighs his
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So much had suffer'd and must suffe
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[pg 182] Such wondrous deeds as Hec
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This said, each parted to his sever
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No taste of sleep these heavy eyes
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Meges for strength, Oileus famed fo
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Assembling there, between the trenc
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He heard, return'd, and took his pa
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Ill fits thy age these toils to und
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[pg 185] And, couching close, repel
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In silent state the consistory crow
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What must not Greece to her deliver
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Then thus the king of men the conte
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The stars shine fainter on the ethe
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Thus sheathed in arms, the council
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Peace was his charge; received with
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[pg 188] Of yonder fleet a bold dis
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Even to the royal tent pursue my wa
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[pg 189] Moving this way, or hasten
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As when two skilful hounds the leve
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"O spare my youth, and for the brea
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And, tired with toils, neglect the
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Whose wives and infants, from the d
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In cruel chains, till your return r
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O speed our labours, and direct our
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[pg 192] Urge thou the slaughter, w
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Just then a deathful dream Minerva
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[pg 193] In haste he mounted, and h
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Ulysses stopp'd; to him Tydides bor
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[pg 194] Scarce had he spoke, when,
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Whose hostile king the brave Tydide
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[pg 195] They sit, rejoicing in her
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is pierced with an arrow by Paris,
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[pg 196] Even Ajax and Achilles hea
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And first he cased his manly legs a
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Ten zones of brass its ample brim s
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The squadrons spread their sable wi
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As sweating reapers in some wealthy
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On earth he turn'd his all-consider
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Atrides spoil'd, and left them on t
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Their bones he cracks, their reekin
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[pg 200] These words, attended with
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And the thick thunder beats the lab
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[pg 201] The path they take, and sp
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"Iris, with haste thy golden wings
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But when, or wounded by the spear o
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From sage Antenor and Theano sprung
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Till, grasp'd with force, he wrench
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[pg 203] And through his arm stood
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Sad mothers of unutterable woes!) S
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[pg 204] Lo, Jove himself declares
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As when a western whirlwind, charge
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And from his car the proud Thymbrae
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The far-famed hero of Paeonian stra
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And a short darkness shades his swi
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But pierced his foot, and nail'd it
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Steeps earth in purple, gluts the b
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[pg 207] And round him deep the ste
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He said, and forceful pierced his s
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[pg Ah, wretch! no father shall thy
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Great Ajax, like the god of war, at
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[pg 209] And lays Lysander bleeding
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And great Machaon to the ships conv
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O'er heaps of carcases, and hills o
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Then sourly slow the indignant beas
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Marks the dry dust, and thirsts for
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With pious care, great Ajax joins t
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The time is come, when yon despairi
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[pg 212] (Whom to his aged arms, a
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Meantime Patroclus, by Achilles sen
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[pg 213] Chief after chief the ragi
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Oppress'd, we arm'd; and now this c
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My sire denied in vain: on foot I f
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I seized his car, the van of battle
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How shall he grieve, when to the et
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Such gentle force the fiercest mind
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Weak was his pace, but dauntless wa
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[pg 216] Once taught Achilles, and
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HERCULES.
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The Trojans follow his counsel; and
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[pg 218] Then Ida's summits pour'd
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But this the gods in later times pe
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[pg 219] Just at the brink they nei
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But should they turn, and here oppr
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[pg 220] By orders strict the chari
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The moving legions speed their head
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[pg 221] This Polypoetes, great Per
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On every side the crackling trees t
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What man could doubt but Troy's vic
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And all her guardian gods, in deep
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Their martial fury in their wonder
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Then hear my words, nor may my word
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The leading sign, the irrevocable n
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[pg 224] With ardour follow where t
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Since not alike endued with force o
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[pg 225] The circling seas, alone a
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And shepherds gall him with an iron
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[pg 226] That when with wondering e
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And saw where Teucer with the Ajace
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Your strength, united, best may hel
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Prepared to labour in the unequal f
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Might stop the progress of his warl
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And through his buckler drove the t
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One foot, one inch, of the contende
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[pg 229] Shoots up, and all the ris
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And seems a match for more than mor
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[pg 230] BOOK XIII. ARGUMENT. THE F
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The eight-and-twentieth day still c
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Whose waving woods o'erhung the dee
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His whirling wheels the glassy surf
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The heavens re-echo, and the shores
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There Greece has strength: but this
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Favouring descends, and wills to st
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Page 1082 and 1083: A prey to every savage of the wood:
Page 1084 and 1085: Hark! the gates burst, the brazen b
Page 1086 and 1087: [pg 235] The close compacted legion
Page 1088 and 1089: The first of gods, this day inspire
Page 1090 and 1091: [pg 236] And blest in bright Medesi
Page 1092 and 1093: And just had fastened on the dazzli
Page 1094 and 1095: [pg 237] And breathes destruction o
Page 1096 and 1097: Wills us to fall inglorious! Oh, my
Page 1098 and 1099: Which to pale man the wrath of heav
Page 1100 and 1101: That shed a lustre round the illumi
Page 1102 and 1103: Against his bosom beats his quiveri
Page 1104 and 1105: [pg 239] So Mars armipotent invades
Page 1106 and 1107: These can the rage of haughty Hecto
Page 1108 and 1109: [pg 240] Thus by despair, hope, rag
Page 1110 and 1111: For this, of Jove's superior might
Page 1112 and 1113: The great Idomeneus bestrides the d
Page 1114 and 1115: As when the mountain-oak, or poplar
Page 1116 and 1117: On his raised arm by two strong bra
Page 1118 and 1119: To wail his fate in death's eternal
Page 1120 and 1121: "Behold, Deiphobus! nor vaunt in va
Page 1122 and 1123: [pg 243] The bold Deiphobus approac
Page 1124 and 1125: And met the Trojan with a lowering
Page 1126 and 1127: [pg 244] Moves on in rank, and stre
Page 1128 and 1129: Though now unfit an active war to w
Page 1132 and 1133: Along the chine, his eager javelin
Page 1134 and 1135: Disarm'd, he mingled in the Trojan
Page 1136 and 1137: But harmless bounded from the plate
Page 1138 and 1139: Pisander's spear fell shiver'd on t
Page 1140 and 1141: [pg 247] A princess raped transcend
Page 1142 and 1143: And the bold son of Pylaemenes slew
Page 1144 and 1145: [pg 248] Paris from far the moving
Page 1146 and 1147: With such a tide superior virtue sw
Page 1148 and 1149: (Young Ajax' brother, by a stolen e
Page 1150 and 1151: But skill'd from far the flying sha
Page 1152 and 1153: To some the powers of bloody war be
Page 1154 and 1155: Achilles, great Achilles, yet remai
Page 1156 and 1157: Some low in dust, (a mournful objec
Page 1158 and 1159: [pg 251] I scatter'd slaughter from
Page 1160 and 1161: The afflicted deeps tumultuous mix
Page 1162 and 1163: [pg The skill of war to us not idly
Page 1164 and 1165: Enormous boaster! doom'd to vaunt i
Page 1166 and 1167: [pg 253] GREEK EARRINGS. BOOK XIV.
Page 1168 and 1169: advantage of his slumber, and succo
Page 1170 and 1171: [pg 254] His wounded eyes the scene
Page 1172 and 1173: In lines advanced along the shelvin
Page 1174 and 1175: [pg 255] Not Jove himself, upon the
Page 1176 and 1177: Then, if impetuous Troy forbear the
Page 1178 and 1179: [pg Is this a general's voice that
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Lies whelm'd in ruins of the Theban
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Beyond the missile javelin's soundi
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And sent his voice before him as he
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Safe from access of each intruding
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[pg 258] Thus issuing radiant with
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Whelm'd under the huge mass of eart
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[pg 259] Whilst from Olympus please
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And his hush'd waves lie silent on
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[pg 260] Nor for the deed expect a
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SLEEP ESCAPING FROM THE WRATH OF JU
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[pg 261] Sat Sleep, in likeness of
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Which held so long that ancient pai
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[pg 262] Nor comelier Ceres' more m
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Not even the sun, who darts through
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[pg 263] To check a while the haugh
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Thus arm'd, not Hector shall our pr
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Pale mortals tremble, and confess t
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And cursed the lance that unavailin
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[pg 265] Clanks on the field, a dea
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And seals again, by fits, his swimm
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The soul of Ajax burn'd above the r
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He spake, and smiled severe, for we
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Drove through the neck, and hurl'd
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[pg 267] Ye all-beholding, all-reco
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BACCHUS.
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submissions; she is then sent to Ir
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[pg 269] His senses wandering to th
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Nor pull the unwilling vengeance on
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If truth inspires thy tongue, procl
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Nor one of all the heavenly host en
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Unmoved his mind, and unrestrain'd
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But dare not murmur, dare not vent
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Thus to the impetuous homicide she
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[pg 272] Receive, and execute his d
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Strives he with me, by whom his pow
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No vassal god, nor of his train, am
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"Great is the profit (thus the god
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Seeks his own seas, and trembles at
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Again his loved companions meet his
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Even I will make thy fiery coursers
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[pg 275] Soon as they see the furio
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Fierce as he is, let Hector learn t
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These drink the life of generous wa
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Though born of lawless love: from h
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The coursers fly; the smoking chari
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Exhort their men, with praises, thr
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Legions on legions from each side a
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He spoke; and, speaking, swifter th
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But, pierced by Telamon's huge lanc
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[pg 279] Dear as a parent, with a p
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Then, fired to vengeance, rush'd am
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[pg 280] Thy arms no less suffice t
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When happy nations bear the marks d
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How Hector calls, and Troy obeys hi
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His radiant arms triumphant Meges b
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But Hector's voice excites his kind
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[pg 282] With equal ardour Melanipp
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He said; and backward to the lines
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[pg 283] While stones and darts in
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He foams with wrath; beneath his gl
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[pg 284] Bursts as a wave that from
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The son redeem'd the honours of the
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With mutual honour, and with mutual
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But looks a moving tower above the
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And breathes fierce spirits in his
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Wounded, they wound; and seek each
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Of reverend dotards check'd our glo
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No aids, no bulwarks your retreat a
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[pg 289] While the black vessels sm
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Or may some meaner cause thy pity c
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[pg 290] "O man unpitying! if of ma
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"Patroclus! thy Achilles knows no f
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Go save the fleets, and conquer in
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Rage uncontroll'd through all the h
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And painful sweat from all his memb
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And smote his thigh, and thus aloud
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Buckles. The brave Automedon (an ho
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Grim as voracious wolves, that seek
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Eudorus next; whom Polymele the gay
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[pg 294] This stern remembrance to
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Ranks wedged in ranks; of arms a st
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But Peleus' son; and Peleus' son to
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Oh! be his guard thy providential c
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[pg 296] Thus from the tents the fe
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Unbless'd Protesilaus to Ilion's sh
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Forced from the navy, yet the fight
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His arm falls spouting on the dust
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Full on the juncture of the neck an
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But still at Hector godlike Ajax ai
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Fierce on the rear, with shouts Pat
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[pg 299] From their deep beds he bi
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And with unmanly tremblings shook t
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With this reproach his flying host
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Say, shall I snatch him from impend
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[pg 301] She said: the cloud-compel
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The starting coursers, and restrain
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[pg 302] The trembling limbs, and s
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The reeking fibres clinging to the
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For thou, though distant, canst res
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Stretch'd by Patroclus' arm on yond
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And send the living Lycians to the
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[pg 304] And, like an eagle darting
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An iron circle round the carcase gr
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[pg 305] Vain are thy vaunts; succe
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And stuck with darts by warring her
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Then Hector's mind he fills with di
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To the soft arms of silent Sleep an
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[pg 307] Of matchless swiftness, bu
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Epistor, Melanippus, bite the groun
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[pg 308] (Thy brother, Hecuba! from
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His front, brows, eyes, one undisti
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Stern Hector fastens on the warrior
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While on each host with equal tempe
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Long used, untouch'd, in fighting f
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Thus, by an arm divine, and mortal
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The fancied scenes of Ilion wrapt i
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[pg 311] The gods inspire it, and i
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But swift Automedon with loosen'd r
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[pg 312] BOOK XVII. ARGUMENT. THE S
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On the cold earth divine Patroclus
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Nor panther braves his spotted foe
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Let heaven decide our fortune, fame
Page 1427 and 1428:
[pg 314] While the fierce Spartan t
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Thus having spoke, Apollo wing'd hi
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[pg 315] Did but the voice of Ajax
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The body to Achilles to restore Dem
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On Hector frowning, thus his flight
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The sword for glory, and his countr
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The strong he withers, and confound
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Now blazing in the immortal arms he
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No more officious, with endearing c
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[pg 318] Tor this, our wealth, our
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On thee, on me, perhaps, my friend,
Page 1449 and 1450:
[pg 319] Whole Troy embodied rush'd
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The first attack the Grecians scarc
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[pg 320] Lamented youth! in life's
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Struck at the sight, recede the Tro
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[pg 321] "Oh lasting shame! to our
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Close in their ranks commands to fi
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But death and darkness o'er the car
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The mangled body bathed in sweat an
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First perish all, ere haughty Troy
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Circled their arched necks, and wav
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The field, and spread her slaughter
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No Greek like him the heavenly stee
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Each hopes the conquest of the loft
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[pg 325] Which pass'd the shield of
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Poor as it is, some offering to thy
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[pg 326] To thee the greatest in wh
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With riches honour'd, and with cour
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The affrighted hills from their fou
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Had graced the triumphs of his Troj
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What human strength and prudence ca
Page 1489 and 1490:
"Now, now, Atrides! cast around thy
Page 1491 and 1492:
So parts the chief; from rank to ra
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[pg 329] From his fair eyes the tea
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Myself, and my bold brother will su
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[pg 330] To whelm some city under w
Page 1499 and 1500:
High on poised pinions, threats the
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[pg 331] BOOK XVIII. ARGUMENT. THE
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And now it rises, now it sinks by t
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Dead is Patroclus! For his corse th
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The circling Nereids with their mis
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How wretched, were I mortal, were m
Page 1511 and 1512:
And thus the silver-footed dame beg
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[pg 334] New woes, new sorrows, sha
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Wrath and revenge from men and gods
Page 1517 and 1518:
[pg 335] Soon shall the sanguine to
Page 1519 and 1520:
The sea-green sisters plunge beneat
Page 1521 and 1522:
But check'd, he turns; repuls'd, at
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Thy friend's disgrace, thy own eter
Page 1525 and 1526:
[pg 337] Shall take new courage, an
Page 1527 and 1528:
Struck from the walls, the echoes f
Page 1529 and 1530:
Meantime, unwearied with his heaven
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JUNO COMMANDING THE SUN TO SET. "In
Page 1533 and 1534:
[pg 339] Nor what I tremble but to
Page 1535 and 1536:
And proud Maeonia wastes the fruits
Page 1537 and 1538:
The worst advice, the better to ref
Page 1539 and 1540:
One fate the warrior and the friend
Page 1541 and 1542:
Beneath the vase, and climbs around
Page 1543:
Say, shall not I one nation's fate
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That placed on living wheels of mas
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THETIS AND EURYNOME RECEIVING THE I
Page 1550 and 1551:
[pg 343] While I the labours of the
Page 1552 and 1553:
And Vulcan's joy and duty to obey."
Page 1554 and 1555:
To Troy I sent him! but his native
Page 1556 and 1557:
As I shall forge most envied arms,
Page 1558 and 1559:
And godlike labours on the surface
Page 1560 and 1561:
The subject of debate, a townsman s
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Gold were the gods, their radiant g
Page 1564 and 1565:
[pg 347] With new-made wounds; anot
Page 1566 and 1567:
And last the children, in whose arm
Page 1568 and 1569:
[pg 348] Here herds of oxen march,
Page 1570 and 1571:
The youths all graceful in the glos
Page 1572 and 1573:
[pg 349] The greaves of ductile tin
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Patroclus. The hero obstinately ref
Page 1576 and 1577:
[pg 350] Then drops the radiant bur
Page 1578 and 1579:
Then uncontroll'd in boundless war
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Lame with their wounds, and leaning
Page 1582 and 1583:
I deem, their mightiest, when this
Page 1584 and 1585:
[pg 352] But prints her lofty foots
Page 1586 and 1587:
And stop the babe, just issuing to
Page 1588 and 1589:
[pg 353] Whate'er Ulysses promised
Page 1590 and 1591:
Can last a hero through a single da
Page 1592 and 1593:
[pg 354] Thy words give joy, and wi
Page 1594 and 1595:
And copious banquets, glad your wea
Page 1596 and 1597:
Greece honours not with solemn fast
Page 1598 and 1599:
A row of six fair tripods then succ
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The black-eyed maid inviolate remov
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[pg 356] The foaming coursers to th
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The first, the dearest partner of h
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[pg 357] Thy sweet society, thy win
Page 1608 and 1609:
His hastening soul, and sinks him t
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And like a deluge pour'd upon the p
Page 1612 and 1613:
The brazen sword a various baldric
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Ponderous and huge, which not a Gre
Page 1616 and 1617:
Be swift, be mindful of the load ye
Page 1618 and 1619:
Then ceased for ever, by the Furies
Page 1620 and 1621:
[pg 360] BOOK XX. ARGUMENT. THE BAT
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The gods to council in the starry h
Page 1624 and 1625:
And death stands ardent on the edge
Page 1626 and 1627:
The vessels tremble as the gods ali
Page 1628 and 1629:
[pg 362] With voice divine, from Il
Page 1630 and 1631:
[pg 363] THE GODS DESCENDING TO BAT
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Æneas was the first who dared to s
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Were God my aid, this arm should ch
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Hereafter let him fall, as Fates de
Page 1638 and 1639:
In elder times to guard Alcides mad
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And, so he moved, his javelin flame
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Sons he has many; those thy pride m
Page 1644 and 1645:
[pg 366] With mean reproaches, and
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Conceal'd his godhead in a flowing
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Beneath the shades of Tmolus, crown
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CENTAUR.
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Vulcan, by the instigation of Juno,
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While fast behind them runs the bla
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(Late their proud ornaments, but no
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[pg 376] As trembling, panting, fro
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One hand embraced them close, one s
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Die then,"—He said; and as the wo
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Thus he rewards you, with this bitt
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Whose son encounters our resistless
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[pg 379] The eternal ocean, from wh
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'Tis not on me thy rage should heap
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[pg 380] He spoke in vain—The chi
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Then blacken'd the wild waves: the
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[pg Still flies Achilles, but befor
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Oh! had I died in fields of battle
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And Hector's blood shall smoke upon
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With broken rocks, and with a load
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[pg 383] Increased with gore, and s
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At once consumes the dead, and drie
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[pg 384] He ceased; wide conflagrat
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Which bears Jove's thunder on its d
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Jove's Cyprian daughter, stooping o
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How vain that martial pomp, and dre
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[pg 387] The scattering arrows, rat
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Shook with her sighs, and panted on
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High on a turret hoary Priam stands
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While I decline to yonder path, tha
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[pg 389] Untaught to fear or fly, h
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Smote on his knee; the hollow cuish
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[pg 390] And sudden joy confused, a
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Achilles drags the dead body at his
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[pg 391] With mortal speed a godhea
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Not half so dreadful rises to the s
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[pg 392] How many valiant sons I la
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Yet cursed with sense! a wretch, wh
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[pg And pour to dogs the life-blood
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On my rash courage charge the chanc
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To die, or triumph, that, determine
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(A wider compass,) smoke along the
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"O loved of Jove! this day our labo
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Yet on the verge of battle let us s
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But first, try thou my arm; and may
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And, all collected, on Achilles fle
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Of speech, unhappy! from thy dying
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"No, wretch accursed! relentless he
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He ceased. The Fates suppress'd his
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Since now at length the powerful wi
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[pg 401] With thongs inserted throu
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Not e'en his stay without the Scaea
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[pg 403] "Ah follow me! (she cried)
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Her hair's fair ornaments, the brai
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[pg 404] From different parents, di
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Nor reach the goblet, nor divide th
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Useless to thee, from this accursed
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urial; the next morning the soldier
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[pg 406] "Not yet, my brave compani
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And twelve sad victims, of the Troj
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[pg 407] They urged in vain; the ch
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Along the grass his languid members
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No more our thoughts to those we lo
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[pg 409] First march the heavy mule
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All mount their chariots, combatant
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[pg 410] Where to the day thy silve
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To gentle Zephyr and the Boreal bla
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Swift as the word she vanish'd from
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Resplendent brass, and more resplen
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While with sure skill, though with
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Lest through incaution failing, tho
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At once the coursers from the barri
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The next, though distant, Menelaus
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[pg 417] Still edging near, and bea
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And, turn'd too short, he tumbled o
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Will learn their rashness, when the
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The well-plied whip is hung athwart
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"Behold! the man whose matchless ar
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[pg 420] So not a leader shall our
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So spoke Antilochus; and at the wor
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He said; and pleased his passion to
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Too true it is, deserted of my stre
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Go thou, my son! by generous friend
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And whom the Greeks supreme by conq
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[pg 423] In Theban games the nobles
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Whose arms support him, reeling thr
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The humid sweat from every pore des
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Still breathing strife, and unsubdu
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It stands the prize of swiftness in
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To him they give their wishes, hear
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She urged her favourite on the rapi
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[pg 426] Next these a buckler, spea
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Opposed in arms not long they idly
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[pg 427] If he be one enrich'd with
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He next invites the twanging bow to
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And Merion eager meditates the woun
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Here too great Merion hopes the nob
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[pg 429] BOOK XXIV. ARGUMENT. THE R
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terment. The scene is partly in Ach
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The ruddy morning rises o'er the wa
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HECTOR'S BODY AT THE CAR OF ACHILLE
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Awhile they sorrow, then dismiss th
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[pg 432] His birth deriving from a
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Her furious son from Priam to recei
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[pg Sad object as I am for heavenly
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Nine days are past since all the co
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"How long, unhappy! shall thy sorro
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Except, to place the dead with dece
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(Sad scene of woe!) his face his wr
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Thy age, nor touch one venerable ha
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And where the prudence now that awe
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And fell a hero in his country's ri
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(The pledge of treaties once with f
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[pg 437] The sorrowing friends his
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Forgive his anger, and produce the
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[pg 438] And thus consigns it to th
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On the mid pavement pours the rosy
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[pg 439] The brazen portal in his p
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O'er the wide earth, and o'er the b
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The afflicted monarch shiver'd with
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Hail, and be bless'd! For scarce of
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[pg 441] Forbade assistance, and en
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Untouch'd by worms, untainted by th
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[pg 442] To whom the latent god: "O
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Unseen, through all the hostile cam
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Whatever pity that stern heart can
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Thus stood the attendants stupid wi
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[pg 444] Nineteen one mother bore
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The old man's cheek he gently turn'
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Rise, then: let reason mitigate you
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Of his weak age, to live the curse
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A weak old man to see the light and
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Next, heap'd on high, the numerous
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To whom, composed, the godlike chie
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The gods themselves, at length rele
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Which round the board Automedon bes
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Forth, by the flaming lights, they
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The next, to raise his monument be
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[pg 449] To spare thy age; and offe
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To hail your hero glorious from the
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[pg 450] With plaintive sighs, and
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The sad companion of thy mother's w
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"O thou, the best, the dearest to m
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Now twice ten years (unhappy years)
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Twelve days, nor foes nor secret am
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The snowy bones his friends and bro
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[pg 453] CONCLUDING NOTE. We have n
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Helen, after the death of Paris, ma
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conclusion, I desire to dedicate it
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thus enlists their affections in be
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3. thai. Vit. Hom. in Schweigh Hero
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4. "Should it not be, since my arri
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8. 9. phoraes oi gar Kumaioi tous t
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11. 12. It was at Bolissus, and in
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17. 18. 19. 20. Compare Sir E. L. B
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22. 23. 24. See Tatian, quoted in F
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of Tasso, not only to recite it con
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26. bined may attain in a simpler a
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32. 33. 34. 35. 36. "The first book
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the army, which for nine years has
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41. 42. covers the victory, slays t
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harassed that territory. Strabo, ho
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poems, all deaths from unforeseen o
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53. Grote, vol. ii. p 92. "It is an
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57. which resembles that of the ant
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60. 61. ander, in Clem. Alex. vii.
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64. 65. Quintus Calaber goes still
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67. must have been one of the most
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69. 70. Restore their strength with
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73. 74. pennyworth of nuts is sold.
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75. From heaven, they fabled, throw
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77. 78. All but the unsleeping eyes
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81. 82. "As bees in spring-time, wh
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84. Then pledged the chief in a cap
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87. Heeren, "Ancient Greece," ch. v
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88. of what precedes, and do not co
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91. 92. Those critics who have main
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94. 95. 96. 97. —Tydeus' son, i.e
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source of the river to the highest
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101. Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a
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102. scattered over the thousands w
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103. 104. comparing it with the all
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108. ies—they yet acknowledged in
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111. 112. 113. Dryden's Virgil, ii.
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115. stantly reappearing in the anc
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117. 118. 119. Merrick's "Tryphiodo
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124. "Thus having said, she turn'd
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129. 130. So Apuleius, l. c. speaks
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"Galen appears uncertain whether As
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135. 136. Then when I made the fore
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140. 141. 142. 143. His stature rea
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146. 147. "Paradise Lost," xi. 411.
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152. 153. 154. wound she had receiv
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157. 158. Unbarr'd the gates of lig
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160. 161. 162. 163. —Paeon seems
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165. 166. the sword."—Thirlwall,
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168. this task is not, as a general
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174. "The fifty nuptial beds, (such
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176. seems indeed probable, from th
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182. 183. helmet, in which they wer
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struction of the rampart. This take
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narrative, is the decree issued by
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seem to imply that he considered it
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Till Troy descending fix'd the doub
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195. 196. 197. —Ægae, Helice. Bo
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199. 200. And even the lowly valley
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202. answered the purpose.' (Hallam
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205. 206. 207. people, the Dolopes
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210. 181), was a sufficient reason
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From thy sweet lips the half articu
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214. 215. 216. 217. might be addres
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219. 220. "There's one did laugh in
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223. "Circled with foes as when a p
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226. Below the wall's foundation dr
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230. molgian," i.e. "milking their
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232. 233. 234. renders many notes u
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237. entage, and too ancient to all
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239. 240. "Paradise Lost," vi. 335,
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243. the Chersonese, near the city
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tracts little from the dignity of t
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245. —The destinies ordain.—"In
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246. from both speakers, that altho
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And, sunk in sorrow, hangs his lang
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250. 251. 252. 253. This is connect
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254. 255. The realms of Tethys, whi
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256. And Gorgons, whose long locks
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the imagery differs in little more
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the Grecian Mythology; it explains,
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261. 262. 263. "Swift from his thro
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266. 267. —The future father. "Æ
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of the Iliad, he has brought the ri
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272. 273. 274. —Beneath a caldron
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277. 278. the dignity of a princess
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281. 282. 283. —Thrice in order l
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285. 286. So Milton:— Dryden. "So
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289. 290. 291. On the prevalence of
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292. Presuming of his force, with s
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* * * * At once on th' eastern clif
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Coleridge are well worth reading:
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296. the earlier parts of the Iliad
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297. 298. yielding up the body of H
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299. feeling and softness of tone w
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nor familiar; not contemptuous, yet
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