Excerpt: ...thinnest parts explore. Thus two long hours in equal arms they stood, And wounded wound, till both are bathed in blood And not a foot of ground had either got, As if the world depended on the spot. Fell Arcite like an angry tiger fared, And like a lion Palamon appeared: Or, as two boars whom love to battle draws, With rising bristles and with frothy jaws, Their adverse breasts with tusks oblique they wound With grunts and groans the forest rings around. So fought the knights, and fighting must abide, Till Fate ...
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Excerpt: ...thinnest parts explore. Thus two long hours in equal arms they stood, And wounded wound, till both are bathed in blood And not a foot of ground had either got, As if the world depended on the spot. Fell Arcite like an angry tiger fared, And like a lion Palamon appeared: Or, as two boars whom love to battle draws, With rising bristles and with frothy jaws, Their adverse breasts with tusks oblique they wound With grunts and groans the forest rings around. So fought the knights, and fighting must abide, Till Fate an umpire sends their difference to decide. The power that ministers to God's decrees, And executes on earth what Heaven foresees, Called Providence, or Chance, or Fatal sway, Comes with resistless force, and finds or makes her way. Nor kings, nor nations, nor united power One moment can retard the appointed hour, And some one day, some wondrous chance appears, Which happened not in centuries of years: For sure, whate'er we mortals hate or love Or hope or fear depends on powers above: They move our appetites to good or ill, And by foresight necessitate the will. In Theseus this appears, whose youthful joy Was beasts of chase in forests to destroy; This gentle knight, inspired by jolly May, Forsook his easy couch at early day, And to the wood and wilds pursued his way. Beside him rode Hippolita the queen, And Emily attired in lively green, With horns and hounds and all the tuneful cry, To hunt a royal hart within the covert nigh: And, as he followed Mars before, so now He serves the goddess of the silver bow. The way that Theseus took was to the wood, Where the two knights in cruel battle stood: The laund on which they fought, the appointed place In which the uncoupled hounds began the chase. Thither forth-right he rode to rouse the prey, That shaded by the fern in harbour lay;...
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Add this copy of Palamon and Arcite to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by Wonderful Books By Mail rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Durham, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1900 by GINN & CO PUB.; . ATHENAEUM PRESS.
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Illustrated by Dryden FRONTIS Portrait. Very Good. 5x7" VERY GOOD CONDITION, Cover looks lightly smudged in past. but lightly so. Solidly bound with name ep "Mildred Ingraham, Central High School"...else not marked up, not worn or abused.; BLACK SPINE & COVER TITLES ON TAN CLOTH HARD COVERS (THIN BOOK) Cover has 2" floral circle with lamp of learning on top...laurle wreath. "STANDARD ENGLISH CLASSICS" BOTTOM FORECORNER OF FRONT COVER..; 93ps+adverts pages; an English classic for study in secondary schools......"EASTWARD WAS BUILT A GATE OF MARBLE WHITE; THE LIKE ADORNED THE WESTERN OPPOSITE." A typical rhyme from Palamon. Not a common title by this publisher, not this editor..
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