The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Ingram, Cooke, and Company, 1853 - 664 pages |
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... fight over the same battles , woo the same loves , burn with the same sense of injury , as an Achilles or a Hector . And if we can but attain this degree of enthusiasm ( and less enthusiasm will scarcely suffice for the reading of Homer ) ...
... fight over the same battles , woo the same loves , burn with the same sense of injury , as an Achilles or a Hector . And if we can but attain this degree of enthusiasm ( and less enthusiasm will scarcely suffice for the reading of Homer ) ...
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... fight ; he receives from a divinity new armour ; is reconciled with his general ; and thirsting for glory and revenge , enacts prodigies of valour ; recovers the victory ; slays the enemy's chief ; honours his friend with superb funeral ...
... fight ; he receives from a divinity new armour ; is reconciled with his general ; and thirsting for glory and revenge , enacts prodigies of valour ; recovers the victory ; slays the enemy's chief ; honours his friend with superb funeral ...
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... fight , The spoils of Ilion shall thy loss requite , Whene'er , by Jove's decree , our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers . " Then thus the king : " Shall I my prize resign With tame content , and thou possess'd ...
... fight , The spoils of Ilion shall thy loss requite , Whene'er , by Jove's decree , our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers . " Then thus the king : " Shall I my prize resign With tame content , and thou possess'd ...
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... fight , And Jove himself shall guard a monarch's right . Of all the kings ( the god's distinguish'd care ) To power superior none such hatred bear : VOL . I. G 230 Strife and debate thy restless soul employ , And wars BOOK I. ] 81 THE ...
... fight , And Jove himself shall guard a monarch's right . Of all the kings ( the god's distinguish'd care ) To power superior none such hatred bear : VOL . I. G 230 Strife and debate thy restless soul employ , And wars BOOK I. ] 81 THE ...
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... fights to dare , Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 ' Tis ours , the chance of fighting fields to try ; Thine to look on , and bid the valiant die : So much ' tis safer through the camp to go , And rob a subject , than despoil ...
... fights to dare , Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 ' Tis ours , the chance of fighting fields to try ; Thine to look on , and bid the valiant die : So much ' tis safer through the camp to go , And rob a subject , than despoil ...
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Achilles Æneas Agamemnon Ajax armies arms Atrides bands battle beauteous behold bend beneath blood bold brave breast chariot chief combat command coursers crown'd daring dart descending Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus eyes fair falchion fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames force fury glory goddess godlike gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste heart heaven heavenly Hector heroes Homer honours host Idomeneus Iliad Ilion Ilion's immortal javelin Jove Juno king lance Lycian maid martial mighty Minerva monarch mortal Nestor night numbers o'er Pallas Paris pass'd Patroclus Peleus Phrygian plain poems poet press'd Priam Priam's prince prize proud Pylian race rage sacred Scamander shade shield shining ships shore sire skies slain soul spear spoke steeds Sthenelus stood swift thee thou Thracian thunder Tlepolemus toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulysses Virgil walls warrior woes wound youth
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Page 91 - Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 205 - 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.
Page 216 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore, As thine, Andromache ! thy griefs I dread ; I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led ! In Argive looms our battles to design, And woes, of which so large a part was thine ! To bear the victor's hard commands, or bring The weight of waters from Hyperia's spring. There, while you groan beneath the load of life, They cry, Behold the mighty Hector's wife...
Page 258 - Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send; Loud neigh the coursers o'ar their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Page 47 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work ; Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty; Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with «a careful magnificence...
Page 215 - Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee : Alas ! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall. Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share : O prove a husband's and a father's care ! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon...
Page 63 - 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.
Page 72 - But to resume whate'er thy avarice craves (That trick of tyrants) may be borne by slaves. Yet if our chief for plunder only fight, The spoils of Ilion shall thy loss requite, Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.
Page 82 - The Greeks in shouts their joint assent declare, The priest to reverence, and release the fair. Not so Atrides: he, with kingly pride...
Page 133 - No wonder, such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms! What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen. Yet hence, oh Heav'n! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race.