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" Nineteen one mother bore — Dead, all are dead ! How oft, alas ! has wretched Priam bled ? Still one was left, their loss to recompense ; His father's hope, his country's last defence. "
Extracts from mr. Pope's translation corresponding with The beauties of ... - Page 307
by Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 319 pages
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The history of literature; or, The rise and progress of language ..., Volume 1

sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pages
...griefs, no hopes remain, The best, the bravest of my sons is slain ! Yet what a race ? ere Greece to Dion came, The pledge of many a lov'd and loving dame....has wretched Priam bled ? Still one was left their loss to recompense — His father's hope, his country's last defence. Him too thy rage has slain !...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...bravest, of my sons are slain ! Yet what a race ! ere Greece to Ilion came, The pledge of many a loved and loving dame ! Nineteen one mother bore. Dead —...has wretched Priam bled ! Still one was left, their loss to recompense : His father's hope, his country's last defence. Him too thy rage has slain ! beneath...
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The English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and ...

Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...that foe away. No comfort to my griefs, no hopes remain : The best, the bravest of my sons are slain. Nineteen one mother bore — dead — all are dead...alas, has wretched Priam bled ! Still one was left his loss to recompence, His father's hope, his country's last defence ; Him too thy rage has slain...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...bravest of my sons are slain ! Yet what a race! ere Greece to Hi on came, The pledge of many a loved and loving dame ! Nineteen one mother bore. — Dead,...has wretched Priam bled! Still one was left, their loss to recompense; His father's hope, his country's last defence. Him too thy rage has slain! beneath...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...bravest of my sons are sliin ! Yet what a race, ere (Jreece lo Ihon came, The pledge of many a lovct! and loving dame Nineteen one mother bore — Dead,...How oft, alas ! has wretched Priam bled ! Still one wag left, their loss to recompense; His father's hope, his country's last defence. Him too thy rage...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 2

Homer - 1853 - 336 pages
...bravest, of my sons are slain ! Yet what a race ! ere Greece to Ilion came, The pledge of many a loved and loving dame: Nineteen one mother bore — Dead,...has wretched Priam bled ! Still one was left their loss to recompense ; His father's hope, his country's last defence. Him too thy rage has slain ! beneath...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Ancient Greeks: With an Historical ...

Abraham Mills - Greek literature - 1858 - 498 pages
...comfort to my griefs, no hopes remain, The best, the bravest of my sous are slain ! Yet what a race, ere Greece to Ilion came, The pledge of many a lov'd and loving dame I Nineteen one mother bore — Dead, all are dead ! How oft, alas ! has wretched Priam bled ! Still...
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Iliad, Volume 2

Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1865 - 302 pages
...no hopes remain, The best, the bravest of my sons are slain ! Yet what a race ; ere Greece to llion came, The pledge of many a lov'd, and loving dame...has wretched Priam bled ! Still one was left, their loss to recompense ; His father's hope, his country's last defence. Him too thy rage has slain ! beneath...
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Varieties in Verse: Consisting of New Metrical Translations from Greek ...

Richard Wyatt - 1869 - 208 pages
...bravest of my sons are slain ! Yet what a race ; ere Greece to Ilium came, The pledge of many a loved and loving dame. Nineteen one mother bore — dead,...has wretched Priam bled ! Still one was left their loss to recompense, His father's hope, his country's last defence. Him too thy rage has slain ! beneath...
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The Iliad, tr. by Pope

Homerus - 1870 - 552 pages
...bravest, of my sons are slain ! Yet what a race, ere Greece to I lion came, 615 The pledge of many a loved and loving dame ! Nineteen one mother bore — Dead,...has wretched Priam bled ! Still one was left, their loss to recompense ; His father's hope, his country's last defence. 620 Him too thy rage has slain...
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