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... fierce heat , and tempests swoln with snows : Jove bade the moon along her varying way Mark by foreboding change the coming day ; When gales should lull , and when th ' experienc'd swain From distant range his shelter'd herd restrain ...
... fierce heat , and tempests swoln with snows : Jove bade the moon along her varying way Mark by foreboding change the coming day ; When gales should lull , and when th ' experienc'd swain From distant range his shelter'd herd restrain ...
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... sad vengeance for his purple hair : Where with stretch'd wing swift Scylla cuts the skies , Behind , on rustling plume , fierce Nisus flies : And where swift Nisus towers , her forward flight Darts 22 GEORGICS ....... BOOK I.
... sad vengeance for his purple hair : Where with stretch'd wing swift Scylla cuts the skies , Behind , on rustling plume , fierce Nisus flies : And where swift Nisus towers , her forward flight Darts 22 GEORGICS ....... BOOK I.
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... fierce wind to vex the world conspire ; That night my anchor'd bark shall sleep on shore , While loud and long the storms o'er ocean roar . But if the orb , at dawn that brightly rose , With radiant beam its course of glory close ...
... fierce wind to vex the world conspire ; That night my anchor'd bark shall sleep on shore , While loud and long the storms o'er ocean roar . But if the orb , at dawn that brightly rose , With radiant beam its course of glory close ...
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... fierce howl along th ' unpeopled street . Such lightnings never fir'd th ' unclouded air , Nor comets trail'd so oft their blazing hair . For this in equal arms Philippi view'd Rome's kindred bands again in gore embru❜d , The Gods ...
... fierce howl along th ' unpeopled street . Such lightnings never fir'd th ' unclouded air , Nor comets trail'd so oft their blazing hair . For this in equal arms Philippi view'd Rome's kindred bands again in gore embru❜d , The Gods ...
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... surging waves , Where , fierce as ocean , vext Benacus raves ? Havens and ports , the Lucrine's added mole , Seas that enrag'd along their bulwark roll , 761 • Where Julian waves reject th ' indignant tide , 40 GEORGICS ....... BOOK II .
... surging waves , Where , fierce as ocean , vext Benacus raves ? Havens and ports , the Lucrine's added mole , Seas that enrag'd along their bulwark roll , 761 • Where Julian waves reject th ' indignant tide , 40 GEORGICS ....... BOOK II .
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