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... live , we must hope that some desire will survive of becoming familiar with the language in which they wrote and the metre in which the thoughts and actions which they presented to their Athenian audience were arranged : and this ...
... live , we must hope that some desire will survive of becoming familiar with the language in which they wrote and the metre in which the thoughts and actions which they presented to their Athenian audience were arranged : and this ...
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... live the life they lived . Take the English as far as 6 I received at other hands ' for the first three lines ; ' repaying a gift , ' vroup- γήσας χάριν , ὧνπερ κ . τ . λ . For the next three lines , as far as ' in my youth ' ; for ...
... live the life they lived . Take the English as far as 6 I received at other hands ' for the first three lines ; ' repaying a gift , ' vroup- γήσας χάριν , ὧνπερ κ . τ . λ . For the next three lines , as far as ' in my youth ' ; for ...
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... live wildly upon the wild sea , 8. 9. knowing no mainland except in what bays ( Tоν KÓλ ) they may disembark most safely . 10. 11. 12. But all that the land hides ( aorist ) within dales , pleasant and most beautiful , we saw nothing ...
... live wildly upon the wild sea , 8. 9. knowing no mainland except in what bays ( Tоν KÓλ ) they may disembark most safely . 10. 11. 12. But all that the land hides ( aorist ) within dales , pleasant and most beautiful , we saw nothing ...
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... live , And play i ' the plighted clouds . I was awe - struck , And as I passed , I worshipped . If those you seek , It were a journey like the path to heaven To help you find them . Milton . 1. 2. Two - such I saw when the oxen set free ...
... live , And play i ' the plighted clouds . I was awe - struck , And as I passed , I worshipped . If those you seek , It were a journey like the path to heaven To help you find them . Milton . 1. 2. Two - such I saw when the oxen set free ...
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... let me in my present wildness die , And never live to show th ' incredulous world The noble change that I have purposed ! Coming to look on you , thinking you dead , - And dead almost , my liege , to think you GREEK IAMBIC VERSE . 31.
... let me in my present wildness die , And never live to show th ' incredulous world The noble change that I have purposed ! Coming to look on you , thinking you dead , - And dead almost , my liege , to think you GREEK IAMBIC VERSE . 31.
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aorist ARITHMETIC BALFOUR STEWART beauty BEGINNERS blood BOOK Cæsar cæsura Cambridge CHEMISTRY child CLASS-BOOK Clifton College cloth CONIC SECTIONS consonant crasis Crown 8vo death deeds diphthong dost doth earth ELEMENTARY TREATISE elided English Eton College EXERCISE Extra fcap eyes father fear four lines FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Globe 8vo glory gods GRAMMAR grief hand hath Head Master heart heaven HISTORY honour Introduction J. P. MAHAFFY JOHN RICHARD GREEN John's College king late Fellow LATIN Lecturer LESSONS Literal live LL.D London M.A. New Edition Maps Mathematical mind Notes noun numerous Examples numerous Illustrations Owens College Oxford partic preparation PRIMER PRODELISION Prof Professor PROSE R. C. JEBB revised and enlarged Royal School Second Edition Shakspeare short vowel Soph speak subs tears thee thine thou art thou hast thyself Translated Trinity College word ἐγὼ ἐκ ἐν μὴ ὄμμα οὐ πρὸς τὸ υδ
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