The Iliad of HomerBelford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 páginas |
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... appears as the enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down . When we have read Plato or Xenophon , we think we know something of Socrates ; when we have fairly read and examined ...
... appears as the enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down . When we have read Plato or Xenophon , we think we know something of Socrates ; when we have fairly read and examined ...
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... appear to run in a circle . “ This cannot be true , because it is not true ; and that is not true , because it cannot be true . ” Such seems to be the style in which testimony upon testimony , statement upon statement , is consigned to ...
... appear to run in a circle . “ This cannot be true , because it is not true ; and that is not true , because it cannot be true . ” Such seems to be the style in which testimony upon testimony , statement upon statement , is consigned to ...
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... appears to have been an open temple of Cybele , formed on the top of a rock . The shape is oval , and in the centre is the image of the goddess , the head and an arm wanting . She is represented , as usual , sitting . The chair has a ...
... appears to have been an open temple of Cybele , formed on the top of a rock . The shape is oval , and in the centre is the image of the goddess , the head and an arm wanting . She is represented , as usual , sitting . The chair has a ...
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... appears , though attended with absurdities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we see nothing but its own splendor . This fire is discerned in Virgil , but discerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more shining ...
... appears , though attended with absurdities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we see nothing but its own splendor . This fire is discerned in Virgil , but discerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more shining ...
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... Homer is generally supposed to have wrapped up in his allegories , what a new and ample scene of wonder may this consideration afford us ! How fertile will that imag . account ination appear , which was able to clothe all the 32 PREFACE .
... Homer is generally supposed to have wrapped up in his allegories , what a new and ample scene of wonder may this consideration afford us ! How fertile will that imag . account ination appear , which was able to clothe all the 32 PREFACE .
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Achilles Ajax appear arms band battle bear beneath blood body bold brave breast breath bright chariot chief close clouds command dart dead death deep descends divine dreadful dust earth eyes fair fall fame fate father fear fell field fierce fight fire flames flies force fury give glory gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks hand head hear heart heaven Hector hero Homer honors host human Jove king lance lies live lost mighty mind mortal move o'er once Patroclus plain prize race rage rest rise round sacred shade shield shining ships shore side sire skies slain soul sound spear spoke spread stand steeds stood Swift thee things thou thought thunder train trembling Trojan Troy turns vain walls warrior whole wound youth
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Página 293 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 26 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Página 264 - A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Página 171 - 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.
Página 281 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
Página 84 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 79 - 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...
Página 39 - ... is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes, is of the most animated nature imaginable ; every thing moves, every thing lives, and is put in action. If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person ; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Página 423 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Página 27 - In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.