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"English"
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"Of The Pythagorean Philosophy. From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book XV. [from Fables Ancient and Modern]"
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"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Architecture"
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"City"
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Date: 1700, 1717
"This Helenus to great AEneas told, / Which I retain, e'er since in other Mould: / My Soul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view / My Country Walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv'd anew, / Rais'd by the fall: Decreed by Loss to Gain; / Enslav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)