This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...rites and hecatombs? But Jove's will ever all law overcomes, No other God can cross or make it void; 135 And he affirms, that one the most annoy'd With woes and toils of all those men that fought For Priam's city, and to end hath brought Nine years in the contention, is with thee. For in the tenth year, when roy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...rites and hecatombs? But Jove's will ever all law overcomes, No other God can cross or make it void; 135 And he affirms, that one the most annoy'd With woes and toils of all those men that fought For Priam's city, and to end hath brought Nine years in the contention, is with thee. For in the tenth year, when roy victory 140 Was won to give the Greeks the spoil of Troy, Eeturn they did profess, but not enjoy, Since Pallas they incens'd, and she the waves By all the winds' power, that blew ope their graves. And there they rested. Only this poor one 145 This coast both winds and waves have cast upon; Whom now forthwith he wills thee to dismiss, Affirming that th' unaltered Destinies Not only have decreed he shall not die 131 Lackey--go on foot, be a footman. The word is common, and may be found even in Milton, and Dryden. Teut. lacken, to run. 1,0 Roy--royal. I do not remember to have met with the word thus used. Roy for king was not uncommon. See Nakes. 148 Unaltered--unalterable. Apart his friends, but of necessity 150 Enjoy their sights before those fatal hours, His country earth reach, and erected towers." This struck a love-check'd horror through her powers, When, naming him, she this reply did give: "Insatiate are ye Gods, past all that live, 155 In all things you affect; which still converts Your powers to envies. It afflicts your hearts, That any Goddess should, as you obtain The use of earthly dames, enjoy the men, And most in open marriage. So ye far'd, ieo When the delicious-finger'd Morning shar'd Orion's bed; you easy-living States Could never satisfy your emulous hates, Till in Ortygia the precise-liv'd Dame, Gold-throned Diana, on him rudely came, 165 And with her swift shafts slew him. And such pains, When rich-hair'd Ceres pleas'd to...
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