New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent British Poets, and Poetical Translators, Volume 6C. and C. Whittingham; Published by Carpenter and son, 1827 - Classical poetry |
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... beauteous princess cast a mournful look , Hung on his hand , and then dejected spoke ; Her bosom labour'd with a boding sigh , And the big tear stood trembling in her eye . ' Too daring prince ! ah , whither dost thou run ? Ah , too ...
... beauteous princess cast a mournful look , Hung on his hand , and then dejected spoke ; Her bosom labour'd with a boding sigh , And the big tear stood trembling in her eye . ' Too daring prince ! ah , whither dost thou run ? Ah , too ...
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... beauteous face Beloved by none but those of Atreus ' race ? The wife whom choice and passion doth approve , Sure every wise and worthy man will love . Nor did my fair one less distinction claim ; Slave as she was , my soul adored the ...
... beauteous face Beloved by none but those of Atreus ' race ? The wife whom choice and passion doth approve , Sure every wise and worthy man will love . Nor did my fair one less distinction claim ; Slave as she was , my soul adored the ...
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... beauteous captives thither I'll convey , And all that rests of my unravish'd prey . One only valued gift your tyrant gave , And that resumed ; the fair Lyrnessian slave . Then tell him ; loud , that all the Greeks may hear , And learn ...
... beauteous captives thither I'll convey , And all that rests of my unravish'd prey . One only valued gift your tyrant gave , And that resumed ; the fair Lyrnessian slave . Then tell him ; loud , that all the Greeks may hear , And learn ...
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... son of Jove , and beauteous Helen's ' He ceased , and plunging in the vast profound , Beneath the god the whirling billows bound . ' HOMER . POPE . VOL . VI . F THE GROTTO OF CALYPSO . THUS o'er the world of TRANSLATIONS . 33.
... son of Jove , and beauteous Helen's ' He ceased , and plunging in the vast profound , Beneath the god the whirling billows bound . ' HOMER . POPE . VOL . VI . F THE GROTTO OF CALYPSO . THUS o'er the world of TRANSLATIONS . 33.
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... , And there in autumn's richest purple dyed . Beds of all various herbs , for ever green , In beauteous order terminate the scene . Two plenteous fountains the whole prospect crown'd ; This through 36 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... , And there in autumn's richest purple dyed . Beds of all various herbs , for ever green , In beauteous order terminate the scene . Two plenteous fountains the whole prospect crown'd ; This through 36 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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