Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless e…

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. ✨ John Milton, Henry John Todd, Thomas Newton, John Aikin (1801). The Poetical Works of John Milton, p.275
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