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Page 199 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 199 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness, and lasting pain, Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels...
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Page 166 - Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills.
Page 233 - Syphax, we must work in haste: Oh think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods. Oh ! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death...
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| Title | The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale. In Three Volumes.. Volume 3 of The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale. In Three Volumes, Mary Anne Neri |
| Author | Mary Anne Neri |
| Contributors | Joyce Gold, Cadell & Davies |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1804 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2007 |
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