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" Oh grant me, gods ! ere Hector meets his doom, All I can ask of heaven, an early tomb ! So shall my days in one sad tenor run, And end with sorrows as they first begun. No parent now remains, my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care. "
Greek exercises - Page 182
by William Neilson - 1834
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...in one sad tenor run, 520 And end with sorrows as they Bret begun. No parent now remains my griefs ose. Amid the ring each nervous rival stands, Embracing rigid p / wrapp'd our walls in fire, Laid Thebe waste, and slew my warlike sire ! His fate compassion in the...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...slain. Oh .f grant me, gods ! ere Hector meets his doom, All I can ask of Heaven — an early tomb ! So shall my days in one sad tenor run, And end with sorrows as they first begun. No parent now remains my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care ; Yet, while my Hector still survives, I...
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...slain-! Oh grant me, gods ! ere Hector meets his doom, All I can ask of heaven, an early tomb ! So shall my days in one sad tenor run, And end with sorrows as they first begun. No parent now remains my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care. The fierce Achilles wrapt our walls in fire,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Iť shun ! О grant me, gods, ere Hector meets his doom, All I can ask of heaven, an early tomb ! So circunspecto judicio de tnntis viris pronunciandum est, an they first begun. No parent now remains my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...days in one sad tenor run, And end in sorrow, as they first begun. No parent now remains, my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care.'...The fierce Achilles wrapt our walls in fire, Laid Tftebc waste, and slew my warlike sire ! ,. His fate compassion in the victor bred ; Stern as he was,...
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Literature, Ancient and Modern: With Specimens

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Literature - 1845 - 354 pages
...! O grant me, gods, ere Hector meets his doom, — All I can ask of Heaven, — an early tomb ! So shall my days in one sad tenor run, And end with sorrows as they first begun. No parent now remains, my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care ; The fierce Achilles wrapped our walls in...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...bo slain! Oh, grant me, gods! ere Hector meets his doom, All I can ask of heaven, an early tomb! So shall my days in one sad tenor run, And end with sorrows...aid, no mother's tender care. The fierce Achilles wrapp'd our walls in fire, Laid Thebe waste, and slew my warlike sire! Hig fate compassion in the victor...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 568 pages
...be slain! Oh, grant me, gods! ere Hector meets his doom, All I can ask of heaven, an early tomb ! So shall my days in one sad tenor run, And end with sorrows as they first begun. \o parent now remains my grief to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care. The fierce Achilles...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 570 pages
...meets his doom, All I can ask of Heaven, an early tomb ! So shall my days in one sad tenor run, 520 And end with sorrows as they first begun. No parent now remains my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care. The fierce Achilles wrapp'd our walls in...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...gods! ere Hector meets his doom, All I can ask of heav'n, an early tomb ! So shall my days in one gad tenor run, And end with sorrows, as they first begun. No parent now remains my griefs to share, No father's aid, no mother's tender care. Yet while my Hector still survives, I see...
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