The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Band 1,Teil 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1813 |
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... battle fought , you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person ; the reader is hurried out of him- self by the force of the poet's imagination , and turns in one place to a hearer , in another to a spec ...
... battle fought , you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person ; the reader is hurried out of him- self by the force of the poet's imagination , and turns in one place to a hearer , in another to a spec ...
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... of councils , speeches , battles , and episodes of all kinds , than are to be found even in those poems whose schemes are of the utmost latitude and irregularity . The action is hurried on with the most vehement spi- rit 6 PREFACE .
... of councils , speeches , battles , and episodes of all kinds , than are to be found even in those poems whose schemes are of the utmost latitude and irregularity . The action is hurried on with the most vehement spi- rit 6 PREFACE .
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... battles ; which take up no less than half the Iliad , and are supplied with so vast a variety of incidents , that no ... battle rises above the last in greatness , hor- ror , and confusion . It is certain there is not near that number of ...
... battles ; which take up no less than half the Iliad , and are supplied with so vast a variety of incidents , that no ... battle rises above the last in greatness , hor- ror , and confusion . It is certain there is not near that number of ...
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... battles , me- thinks the two poets resemble the heroes they ce- lebrate . Homer , boundless and irresistible as Achilles , bears all before him , and shines more and more as the tumult increases : Virgil , calmly daring like Æneas ...
... battles , me- thinks the two poets resemble the heroes they ce- lebrate . Homer , boundless and irresistible as Achilles , bears all before him , and shines more and more as the tumult increases : Virgil , calmly daring like Æneas ...
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... battle bred , In early youth my hardy days I led ; Fir'd with the thirst which virtuous envy breeds , And smit with love of honourable deeds . VOL . I. D Strongest of men , they pierc'd the mountain boar , Book 1 . THE ILIAD .
... battle bred , In early youth my hardy days I led ; Fir'd with the thirst which virtuous envy breeds , And smit with love of honourable deeds . VOL . I. D Strongest of men , they pierc'd the mountain boar , Book 1 . THE ILIAD .
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Achilles address'd Æneas Agamemnon Ajax arms Atreus Atrides bands battle beauteous bend beneath blood bold brave brazen breast chariot chief combat command coursers crown'd daring dart descends Diomed divine dreadful E'en Epeians Eurypylus eyes fair falchion fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames fleet force fury glory goddess godlike gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste hear heart Heaven heavenly Hector heroes Homer honours host Idomeneus ILIAD Ilion's immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance Lycian maid martial mighty monarch Nestor night numbers o'er Oïleus Pallas pass'd Patroclus Phrygian pierc'd plain press'd Priam's prince prize proud Pylian race rage sacred seiz'd shade shakes shield shining ships shore sire skies slain soul spear spoke steeds stern Sthenelus stood swift thee thine thou Thracian throne thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Troy's Tydeus Tydides Ulysses Virgil walls warrior woes wound youth
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Seite 67 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Seite 20 - My soul impels me to the embattled plains! Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. "Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Seite 22 - Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Seite 32 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 8 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Seite 46 - This sceptre, form'd by temper'd steel, to prove An ensign of the delegates of Jove, From whom the power of laws and justice springs (Tremendous oath! inviolate to kings): By this I swear, when bleeding Greece again Shall call Achilles, she shall call in vain.
Seite 25 - Perhaps the mixture of some Graecisms and old words, after the manner of Milton, if done without too much affectation, might not have an ill effect in a version of this particular work, which most of any other seems to require a venerable antique cast. But certainly the use of modern terms of war and government, such as platoon, campaign, junto...
Seite 37 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Seite 14 - Here, as the queen revolved with careful eyes The various textures and the various dyes, She chose a veil that shone superior far, And glow'd refulgent as the morning star.
Seite 21 - Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb. Fix'd is the term of all the race of earth ; And such the hard condition of our birth : No force can then resist, no flight can save, All sink alike, the fearful and the brave.