 | Virgil - 1803 - 408 pages
...Minerva's gift, your town in flames shall bur% (Which omen, O ye gods, on Graecia turn!) But if it climb, with your assisting hands, 255 The Trojan walls, and in the city stands; When Troy shall Argos and Mycenae burn, And the reverse of fate on us return." With such deceits he... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...Minerva's gift, your town in flames shall burn (Which omen, O ye gods, on Grajcia turn !): But if it climb, with your assisting hands, 255 The Trojan walls, and in the city stands; Then Troy shall Argos and Mycenae burn, And the reverse of fate on us return." With such deceits he gain'd their easy hearts.... | |
 | Virgil - 1806 - 414 pages
...Minerva's gift, your town in flames shall burn, (Which omen, O ye gods, on Graecia turn !) But if it climb, with your assisting hands, 255 The Trojan walls, and in the city stands ; Then Troy shall Argos and Mycenae burn, , , . And the reverse of fate on us return." With such deceits he gain'd their easy hearts,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...shall burn, (Which omen, O ye gods, on Gragcia turn !) 2 But if it climb, with your assisting hands, The Trojan walls, and in the city stands ; Then Troy shall Argos and Mycenae burn, And the reverse of fate on us return." With such deceits he gained their easy hearts,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pages
...shall burn, (Which omen, O ye gods, on Graecia turn !) But if it climb, with your assisting hands, The Trojan walls, and in the city stands ; Then Troy shall Argos and Mycenas burn, And the reverse of fate on us return." With such deceits he gained their easy hearts,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...assisting hands, The Trojan walls, and in (he city stands, Then Troy shall Argos and 31ycen:c bum, And the reverse of fate on us return.' " With such deceits he gain'd their easy hearts, Too prbrte to credit his perfidious arts, What Diomede, nor Thetis' greater son, A thousand ships, nor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...with your assisting hands, The Trojan walls, and in the city stands, Then Troy bhall Argos and Mycenae burn, And the reverse of fate on us return.' " With such deceits he gaih'd their easy hearts, Too prone to credit his perfidious arts, What Diomede, nor Thetis' greater... | |
 | 1813 - 432 pages
...shall burn ; (Which omen, O ye gods, on Gracia turn !) But if it climb, with your assisting hands, The Trojan walls, and in the city stands ; Then Troy shall Argos and Mycenae burn, And the reverse of fate on us return.' With such deceits he gain'd their easy hearts,... | |
 | Virgil - 1819 - 488 pages
...shall burn, {Which omen, O ye gods, on Greecia turn ! ) But if it climb, with your assisting hands, The Trojan walls, and in the city stands ; Then Troy shall Argos and Mycenae burn, And the reverse of fate on us return." With such deceits he gain'd their easy hearts,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...shall burn, (Which omen, O ye gods, on Graecia turn !) . } But if it climb, with your assisting hands, The Trojan walls, and in the city stands ; Then Troy shall Argos and Mycenae burn, And the reverse of fate on us return." With such deceits he gain'd their easy hearts,... | |
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For so religion and the gods ordain, That, if you violate with hands profane Minerva's gift, your town in flames shall burn, (Which omen, O ye gods, on... 
