| Nathaniel Hooke - Rome - 1759 - 518 pages
...when they had reviled and curfed him, [no body knows why] fet fire ' to the edifice ; chufing rather Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates; (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates !) The d:iy when iliou. Imperial Troy mult bend, And Ice iliy warriors fall, tliy glories end. Iliad Book... | |
| English poetry - 1770 - 268 pages
...quit the field of fame ? My earlji youth was bred to martial pains, My foul impels me to th' embattl'd plains : Let me be foremoft to defend the throne,...fates; (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates !) *» E.--.The day when thou, imperial Troy ! muft bend, And fee thy warrioors fail, thy glories end.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...of fame ? jjj My early youth was bred to martial pains, My foul impels me to th' embattled plains i Let me be foremoft to defend the throne, And guard...my own. Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates i 57* (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates !) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! muft bend,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1785 - 568 pages
...pains, My foul impels me to th' embatd'd plains : Let me be foremoft to defend the throne, And guird my father's glories and my own. Yet come it will,...tongue relates !) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! mufl bend, And fee thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no dire prefage fo wounds my mind,... | |
| John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...foremoft let me ftand to guard the throne, To fave my father's honours and my own.— Yet come it will L the day decreed by fates ! (How my heart trembles,...!} The day, when thou, imperial Troy !— muft bend ; Muft fee thy warriors fall ; thy glories end. And, yet, no dire preface fo wounds my mind, My mother's... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...inartial plains. Still Still foremoft let me fland, to guard the throne, To fave my father's honours, and my own. — Yet come it will ! the day decreed...The day when thou, imperial Troy ! — muft bend, Muft fee thy warriours fall, thy glories end. And, yet, no dire prefage fb wonnds my mind, My mother's... | |
| Homer - 1791 - 410 pages
...the field of fame ? 565 My early youth was bred to martial pains, My foul impels me to th' embattel'd plains : Let me be foremoft to defend the throne,...my own. Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates ; j';o (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when them, imperial Troy ! mud bend,... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...was bred to martial pains, My foul impels me to th' embattled plains: Let me be foremolt to deiend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my...trembles while my tongue relates! • The day when thoti, imperial Troy ! mud bend, / And tee thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no dire prefage... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...embattled phiins : Let me be imemoit to defend the throne. And guard my father's glorief, and my uwii. Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates : (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates! The d»y when thou, imperial Troy ! mud bend, And fee thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no-dire... | |
| Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 428 pages
...the field of fame ? 565 My early youth was bred to martial pains, My foul impels me to th' embattl'd plains : Let me be foremoft to defend the throne,...my own. Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates; 570 (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) Ver. 560.] He regulates his verfion by Dryden,... | |
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