 | Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 502 páginas
...glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, 40 And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. 1 Iliad, viii, 560. Full fifty guards each flaming pile... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1921 - 626 páginas
...And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send. Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of com, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn. ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. What beck'ning... | |
 | Louise Dudley - 1928 - 416 páginas
...lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays: The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky...Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send. Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1928 - 412 páginas
...the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrours gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn ; And... | |
 | Peter Green - 1998 - 332 páginas
...that Pope (for instance) could take the end of Book VIII of the Iliad (lines 562-5) and produce this: A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot...corn, And ardent warriors •wait the rising morn. We are given six lines for four, a clutch of gratuitous rhyme, and much additional decoration not in... | |
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And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires: A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field ; Full fifty guards each flaming... 
