...Hector's address — and he labours to render it, if possible, still more dismal. He makes Hector say, " And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul I know, When sacred Troy shall shed her towers, for tears of overthrow." Not in Homer, indeed, but dreadful — and afterwards, — " As thy...

...Hector's address — and he labours to render it, if possible, still more dismal. He makes Hector say, " And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul I know, When sacred Troy shall shed her towers, for tears of overthrow." Not in Homer, indeed, but dreadful — and afierwards, — " As thy...

...this fire must Hector's trial shine ; Here must his country, father, friends, be, in him, made divine. And such a stormy day shall come (in mind and soul...doth wound, Priam, nor Hecuba herself, nor all my brother's woes (Who though so many, and so good, must all be food for foes) As thy sad state, when...

...this fire must Hector's trial shine ; Here must his country, father, friends, be, in him, made divine. And such a stormy day shall come (in mind and soul...Priam, all his birth and pow'r shall in those tears be drowu'd. But neither Troy's posterity so much my soul doth wound, Priam, nor Hecuba herself, nor all...

...this fire must Hector's trial shine ; Here must his country, father, friends, be, in him, made divine. And such a stormy day shall come (in mind and soul...Troy shall shed her tow'rs for tears of overthrow, Wrhen Priam, all his birth and pow'r shall in those tears be drown 'd. But neither Troy's posterity...

...sacred Troy shall perish : " eao-erai '/)/t«(>, or' ay iror" dX(iX)j "IXioc «p^. Chapman makes this : And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul...Troy shall shed her tow'rs, for tears of overthrow. I might go on for ever, but I could not give you a better illustration than this last, of what I mean...

...sacred Troy shall perish : " eairerai (}/-,"/i, 6V &v TIOr dX(iXj; "IXjoc tpij. Chapman makes this : And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul I know, When sacred Troy shall shed her tow' rs, for tears of overthrow. I might go on for ever, but I could not give ^ou a better illustration...

...this fire must Hector's trial shine : Here must his country, father, friends, be in him made divine. And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul I know, When sacred Troy shall shed her towers for tears of overthrow." The question raised by the new school of critics and translators is...

...HOMER. Then what a miserable conceit, and what a cheap allitera tion, lies in these lines — " Anil such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul, I know, When sacred Troy shall shed her towers for tears of overthrow !" It is to such passages as these that we may apply with truth Pope's...

...this fire must Hector's trial shine ; Here must his country, father, friends, be, in him, made divine. And such a stormy day shall come (in mind and soul I know) When sacred Troy shall shed her towers, for tears of overthrow ; *• When Priam, all his birth and power, shall in those tears be...