The Iliad of HomerBelford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 páginas |
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Página 76
... thunder o'er the vaulted skies : “ What hast thou ask'd ? ah , why should Jove engage In foreign contests and domestic rage , The gods ' complaints , and Juno's fierce alarms , While I , too partial , aid the Trojan arms ? Go , lest the ...
... thunder o'er the vaulted skies : “ What hast thou ask'd ? ah , why should Jove engage In foreign contests and domestic rage , The gods ' complaints , and Juno's fierce alarms , While I , too partial , aid the Trojan arms ? Go , lest the ...
Página 91
... thunder rolling shook the firmament . Encouraged hence , maintain the glorious strife , Till every soldier grasp a Phrygian wife , Till Helen's woes at full revenged appear , And Troy's proud matrons render tear for tear . Before that ...
... thunder rolling shook the firmament . Encouraged hence , maintain the glorious strife , Till every soldier grasp a Phrygian wife , Till Helen's woes at full revenged appear , And Troy's proud matrons render tear for tear . Before that ...
Página 92
... thunder on the stony shore . Straight to the tents the troops dispersing be The fires are kindled , and the smokes ascend ; With hasty feasts they sacrifice , and pray , To avert the dangers of the doubtful day . A steer of five years ...
... thunder on the stony shore . Straight to the tents the troops dispersing be The fires are kindled , and the smokes ascend ; With hasty feasts they sacrifice , and pray , To avert the dangers of the doubtful day . A steer of five years ...
Página 103
... thunder through the war . Ajax in arms the first renown acquired , While stern Achilles in his wrath retired : ( His was the strength that mortal might exceeds , And his the unrivalla race of heavenly steeds :) But Thetis ' son now ...
... thunder through the war . Ajax in arms the first renown acquired , While stern Achilles in his wrath retired : ( His was the strength that mortal might exceeds , And his the unrivalla race of heavenly steeds :) But Thetis ' son now ...
Página 105
... thunder o'er the plains . The fierce Pelasgi next , in war renown'd , March from Larissa's ever - fertile ground : In equal arms their brother leaders shine , Hippothous bold , and Pyleus the divine . Next Acamas and Pyrous lead their ...
... thunder o'er the plains . The fierce Pelasgi next , in war renown'd , March from Larissa's ever - fertile ground : In equal arms their brother leaders shine , Hippothous bold , and Pyleus the divine . Next Acamas and Pyrous lead their ...
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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.