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Rh And Priam's race, and Priam's royal self, Shall in one common ruin be o'erthrown. " (D.)

But that which wrings his heart most of all is the vision before his eyes of his beloved wife dragged into slavery. Pope's version of the rest of the passage is so good of its kind, and has so naturalised the scene to our English conceptions, that no closer version will ever supersede it.

The "charms," be it said, are entirely Pope's idea, and do not harmonise with the simplicity of the true