The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 16Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... 'd fheaves , to Ceres ; to Lyæus , wine ; To Pan , and Pales , offer'd sheep and kine And fat of olives , to Minerva's fhrine . VOL . IV . B } Beginning Beginning from the rural Gods , his hand Was liberal MELEAGER and ATALANTA .
... 'd fheaves , to Ceres ; to Lyæus , wine ; To Pan , and Pales , offer'd sheep and kine And fat of olives , to Minerva's fhrine . VOL . IV . B } Beginning Beginning from the rural Gods , his hand Was liberal MELEAGER and ATALANTA .
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... Gods ; the queen of night , Fir'd with difdain , and jealous of her right , Unhonour'd though I am , at least , said she , Not unreveng'd that impious act shall be . Swift as the word , the fped the boar away , With charge on those ...
... Gods ; the queen of night , Fir'd with difdain , and jealous of her right , Unhonour'd though I am , at least , said she , Not unreveng'd that impious act shall be . Swift as the word , the fped the boar away , With charge on those ...
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... God allow'd His prayer , and , fmiling , gave him what he could : He reach'd the savage , but no blood he drew , Dian unarm'd the javelin as it flew . This chaf'd the boar , his noftrils flames expire , And his red eye - balls roll with ...
... God allow'd His prayer , and , fmiling , gave him what he could : He reach'd the savage , but no blood he drew , Dian unarm'd the javelin as it flew . This chaf'd the boar , his noftrils flames expire , And his red eye - balls roll with ...
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... God ; Thofe tongues , that wit , thofe ftreams , that God , in vain Would offer to describe his fifters ' pain : They beat their breasts with many a bruising blow , Till they turn livid , and corrupt the fnow . The corpfe they cherish ...
... God ; Thofe tongues , that wit , thofe ftreams , that God , in vain Would offer to describe his fifters ' pain : They beat their breasts with many a bruising blow , Till they turn livid , and corrupt the fnow . The corpfe they cherish ...
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... Gods to work that miracle . Lelex , another companion of Thefeus , to confirm the story of Achelous , relates another metamorphofis of Baucis and Philemon into trees : of which he was partly an eye - witness . T HUS Achelous ends : his ...
... Gods to work that miracle . Lelex , another companion of Thefeus , to confirm the story of Achelous , relates another metamorphofis of Baucis and Philemon into trees : of which he was partly an eye - witness . T HUS Achelous ends : his ...
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