The Iliad of HomerBelford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 páginas |
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... race , who have given expression , in the immortal language of song , to the deeper inspirations of our nature . The thoughts of Homer or of Shakespere are the universal inheritance of the human race . In this mutual ground every man ...
... race , who have given expression , in the immortal language of song , to the deeper inspirations of our nature . The thoughts of Homer or of Shakespere are the universal inheritance of the human race . In this mutual ground every man ...
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... race , who have at a later period not inaptly been compared to our self - admiring neighbors , the French , should submit with lofty self - denial to the almost total exclusion of their own ancestors - or , at least , to the ...
... race , who have at a later period not inaptly been compared to our self - admiring neighbors , the French , should submit with lofty self - denial to the almost total exclusion of their own ancestors - or , at least , to the ...
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... race who fought at Thebes and Troy , are called demi - gods , and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed . ” 2 Now among the divine honors which were paid them , they might have this also in common with the gods , not ...
... race who fought at Thebes and Troy , are called demi - gods , and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed . ” 2 Now among the divine honors which were paid them , they might have this also in common with the gods , not ...
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... race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn : Honor and fame at least the thunderer owed ; And ill he pays the promise of a god , If yon proud monarch thus thy son defies , Obscures my glories , and resumes my ...
... race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn : Honor and fame at least the thunderer owed ; And ill he pays the promise of a god , If yon proud monarch thus thy son defies , Obscures my glories , and resumes my ...
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... race : The generous Greeks their joint consent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair ; Not so Atrides : he , with wonted pride , The sire insulted , and his gifts denied : The insulted sire ( his god's peculiar care ) ...
... race : The generous Greeks their joint consent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair ; Not so Atrides : he , with wonted pride , The sire insulted , and his gifts denied : The insulted sire ( his god's peculiar care ) ...
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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.