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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... seat proceed , And seize the coursers of etherial breed ; The race of those , which once the thundering god For ravish'd Ganymede on Tros bestow'd , The best that e'er on earth's broad surface run , 4 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... seat proceed , And seize the coursers of etherial breed ; The race of those , which once the thundering god For ravish'd Ganymede on Tros bestow'd , The best that e'er on earth's broad surface run , 4 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... earth's broad surface run , Beneath the rising or the setting sun . Hence great Anchises stole a breed , unknown By mortal mares , from fierce Laomedon : Four of this race his ample stalls contain , And two transport Æneas o'er the ...
... earth's broad surface run , Beneath the rising or the setting sun . Hence great Anchises stole a breed , unknown By mortal mares , from fierce Laomedon : Four of this race his ample stalls contain , And two transport Æneas o'er the ...
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... earth and starry poles . Far as a shepherd , from some point on high , O'er the wide main extends his boundless eye ; Through such a space of air , with thundering sound , At every leap the ' immortal coursers bound : Troy now they ...
... earth and starry poles . Far as a shepherd , from some point on high , O'er the wide main extends his boundless eye ; Through such a space of air , with thundering sound , At every leap the ' immortal coursers bound : Troy now they ...
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... earth ; And such the hard condition of our birth : No force can then resist , no flight can save , All sink alike , the fearful and the brave . No more - but hasten to thy tasks at home , There guide the spindle , and direct the loom ...
... earth ; And such the hard condition of our birth : No force can then resist , no flight can save , All sink alike , the fearful and the brave . No more - but hasten to thy tasks at home , There guide the spindle , and direct the loom ...
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... earth , and all the ' aerial Spirit divine ! whose exhalation greets [ way : The sense of gods with more than mortal sweets . Thus while she breathed of heaven , with decent Her artful hands the radiant tresses tied ; [ pride Part on ...
... earth , and all the ' aerial Spirit divine ! whose exhalation greets [ way : The sense of gods with more than mortal sweets . Thus while she breathed of heaven , with decent Her artful hands the radiant tresses tied ; [ pride Part on ...
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