The Iliad of HomerBelford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 páginas |
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Página 48
... honors which were paid them , they might have this also in common with the gods , not to be mentioned without the solemnity of an epithet , and such as might be acceptable to them by celebrating their families , actions or qualities ...
... honors which were paid them , they might have this also in common with the gods , not to be mentioned without the solemnity of an epithet , and such as might be acceptable to them by celebrating their families , actions or qualities ...
Página 49
... honor of the chief invention : and as long as this ( which is indeed the characteristic of poetry itself ) remains un . equalled by his followers , he still continues superior to them . A cooler judgment may commit fewer faults , and be ...
... honor of the chief invention : and as long as this ( which is indeed the characteristic of poetry itself ) remains un . equalled by his followers , he still continues superior to them . A cooler judgment may commit fewer faults , and be ...
Página 55
... honor so many of the great have done me ; while the first names of the age appear as my subscribers , and the most distinguished patrons and ornaments of learning as my chief encouragers ? Among these it is a particular pleasure to me ...
... honor so many of the great have done me ; while the first names of the age appear as my subscribers , and the most distinguished patrons and ornaments of learning as my chief encouragers ? Among these it is a particular pleasure to me ...
Página 56
... honors he received after death , when I reflect on the enjoyment of so many agreeable obligations , and easy friendships , which make the satisfaction of life . This distinction is the more to be acknowledged , as it is shown to one ...
... honors he received after death , when I reflect on the enjoyment of so many agreeable obligations , and easy friendships , which make the satisfaction of life . This distinction is the more to be acknowledged , as it is shown to one ...
Página 58
... honor of that combat , and because he also fears for his friend's life . The prohibition is forgotten ; the friend ... honors his friend with superb funeral rites ; and exercises a cruel ven , geance on the body of his destroyer ; but ...
... honor of that combat , and because he also fears for his friend's life . The prohibition is forgotten ; the friend ... honors his friend with superb funeral rites ; and exercises a cruel ven , geance on the body of his destroyer ; but ...
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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.