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" O goddess-born ! escape by timely flight, The flames and horrors of this fatal night. The foes already have possess'd the wall : Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty and to fame.... "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper - Page 369
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The second book of Dryden's Æneid of Virgil, with notes [&c.] ed. by W. McLeod

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1871 - 128 pages
...Neoptolemus; but it only touched his buckler, and fell to the ground. Neoptolemus seized the grey hairs If by a mortal hand my father's throne Could be defended,...state, And gives her gods, companions of thy fate: 390 From their assistance, happier walls expect, Which, wandering long, at last thou shalt erect.'...
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Story of the Trojan war: an epitome, from classic writers

Trojan war - 1874 - 408 pages
...The foes already have possessed the wall : Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty...From their assistance happier walls expect. Which, wand'ring long, at last thou shall erect." Having spoken these words, the spirit of Hector brings from...
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Poems of the Life Beyond and Within: Voices from Many Lands and Centuries ...

Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious poetry - 1877 - 276 pages
...: — • " 0 goddess-born ! escape by timely flight The flames and horrors of this fearful night. If by a mortal hand my father's throne Could be defended,...Which, wandering long, at last thou shalt erect." About 30 BC to MOST glorious of the immortal powers above ! O thou of many names ! mysterious Jove...
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The Works of Virgil

Virgil - Agriculture - 1880 - 450 pages
...The foes already have possess'd the wall : . Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty...father's throne Could be defended, 'twas by mine alone, __ Now Troy to thee commends her future state, And gives her gods companions of thy fate : From their...
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The Works of Virgil

Virgil - Latin poetry - 1881 - 414 pages
...The foes already have possess'd the wall : Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty...From their assistance happier walls expect, Which, wand'ring long, at last thou shalt erect." He said, and brought me from their blest abodes, The venerable...
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Virgil's Aeneid

Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1884 - 328 pages
...to duty and to fame. Could be defended, 'twas by mine alone; If by a mortal hand my father's throne Now Troy to thee commends her future state, And gives her gods companions of thy fate j From their assistance happier walls expect, Which, wandering long, at last thou shalt erect.' He...
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Virgil's Æneid

Virgil - Latin poetry - 1886 - 336 pages
...The foes already have possessed the wall, Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall ; Knough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty...father's throne Could be defended, 'twas by mine alone ; 42 VIRGIL'S ¿EN EI D. [иоок u. Now Troy to tliee commenils lier future state, And gives her...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Volume 11

James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1886 - 806 pages
...Trojans in the manner described by Virgil when he makes the ghost of Hector address ./Eneas thus : " Now Troy to thee commends her future state, And gives her gods companions of thy fafe; From their assistance happier walls expect, Which, wand'ring long, at last thou shall erect."...
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Story of Aeneas

Michael Clarke - Fiction - 1898 - 220 pages
...The foes already have possessed the wall ; Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty...From their assistance, happier walls expect, Which, wand'ring long, at last thou shalt erect." DRYDliN, j&neid, BOOK II. Awaking from his sleep, ^neas...
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Story of Æneas

Michael Clarke - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1898 - 220 pages
...The foes already have possessed the wall ; Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty...From their assistance, happier walls expect, Which, wand'ring long, at last thou shalt erect." DKYDEN, SEneid, BOOK II. Awaking from his sleep, ^Eneas...
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