The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 33Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1823 - English poetry |
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... steps Forth moves their godlike king , with conscious worth His generous bosom glowing . Such the port Of his divine progenitor ; impell'd By ardent virtue , so Alcides trod Invincible , to face in horrid war The triple form of Geryon ...
... steps Forth moves their godlike king , with conscious worth His generous bosom glowing . Such the port Of his divine progenitor ; impell'd By ardent virtue , so Alcides trod Invincible , to face in horrid war The triple form of Geryon ...
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... step by step , In motion slow , the ' advancing bier diffus'd A solemn sadness o'er the camp . A hedge Of trembling spears on either hand is form'd . Tears , underneath his iron - pointed cone , The Sacian drops . The Caspian savage ...
... step by step , In motion slow , the ' advancing bier diffus'd A solemn sadness o'er the camp . A hedge Of trembling spears on either hand is form'd . Tears , underneath his iron - pointed cone , The Sacian drops . The Caspian savage ...
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... steps , O Xerxes ! while thou fly'st ? To thy deserted couch , with other looks , With other steps , Leonidas is nigh . Before him Terror strides . Gigantic Death And Desolation at his side attend . The vast pavilion's empty space ...
... steps , O Xerxes ! while thou fly'st ? To thy deserted couch , with other looks , With other steps , Leonidas is nigh . Before him Terror strides . Gigantic Death And Desolation at his side attend . The vast pavilion's empty space ...
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Abrocomes Agis Alpheus Amphistreus Anaxander ancient Artuchus Asia's awhile band Barbarians bard battle battle of Dettingen Behold Beneath blast bleeds blow bosom brave breast brow buckler chief clouds darts death Demaratus Demophilus Dieneces Diomedon Dithyrambus dreadful dreary earth eternal Eurus Ev'n falchion fame fate floods forehead FRIEND glory goddess graces Grecian Greece groan hail hath head heart heaven hero honours horrors Hydarnes Hyperanthes immortal javelin Jaxartes labour Laconia's king lance laurels Leonidas limbs mace Medon Megistias Muse Mycon Newton night numbers o'er Oïleus pass'd Persian Phocian Phraortes POET Polydorus ponderous praise pride rage rear'd renown resistless rock round Sacian sacred hand sage satraps scatter'd seat shade shalt shield shore skies smiles Sosarmes soul Spartan spear splendours spread streams stretch'd swift sword terror thee Thermopyla Thespia's thou thought throne tide toil trembling valour virtue waves wind wounds Xerxes XXXIII yields