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Strana 299 - mournful vifion ! the Sifyphian fliade ; ; With many a weary ftep, and many a groan ' Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone; " The huge round ftone, refulting with a bound, " Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the
Strana 307 - My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. " Alas! my parents, brothers, kindred, all " Once more will perifh if my Hector fall. " Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger (hare, " Oh prove a hufband's and a father's care! Hector, having anfwered Andromache in a manner equally noble and affectionate,
Strana 346 - Abodes *' And know th' Almighty is the God of Gods. " League all your forces then, ye pow'rs above, " Join all, and try th' omnipotence of Jove : " Let down our golden, everlafting chain, " Whofe ftrong embrace holds heav'n, and earth, " and main: " Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth,
Strana 321 - For him thus proftrate at thy feet I lay; " Large gifts, proportion'd to thy wrath, I bear ; " Oh, hear the wretched, and the Gods revere ! " Think of thy father, and this face behold! '* See him in me, as helplefs and as old !
Strana 307 - The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, *' And plac'd the beaming helmet on the ground. " Then kifs'd the child, and lifting high in air, " Thus to the Gods prefer'da father's prayer.
Strana 320 - May fend him thee to chafe that foe away. No comfort to my griefs, no hopes remain, " The beft, the braveft of my fons are flain ! ' Yet what a race ? e'er Greece to Ilion came *' The pledge of many a lov'd and loving dame:
Strana 345 - Or far, oh far from fteep Olympus thrown, " Low in the dark Tartarean gulph fhall groan, " With burning chains fix'd to the brazen floors, " And lock'd by hell's inexorable doors; " u As deep beneath th' infernal centre hurl'd, " As from that centre to th
Strana 321 - Think of thy father, and this face behold! '* See him in me, as helplefs and as old ! " Though not fo wretched : There he yields to me, " The firft of men in fovereign mifery. " Thus forc'd to kneel, thus grov'ling to embrace " The fcourge and ruin of my realm and race; " Suppliant my children's murderer to implore,
Strana 346 - in vain? If I but ftretch this hand, " I heave the Gods, the Ocean and the land, " I fix the chain to great Olympus height, " And the vaft world hangs trembling in my fight. " For fuch I reign, unbounded, and above ; " And fuch are men and Gods compar'd to Jove. " Th' Almighty fpoke, nor durft the pow'rs reply, ' A rev'rend horror filenc'd all the

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