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... light in antiquity , which nothing better preserves than a version almost literal . I know no liberties one ought to take , but those which are necessary for transfusing the spirit of the original , and supporting the poetical style of ...
... light in antiquity , which nothing better preserves than a version almost literal . I know no liberties one ought to take , but those which are necessary for transfusing the spirit of the original , and supporting the poetical style of ...
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... light ! whom Tenedos adores , 55 ' And whose bright presence gilds thy Chrysa's shores : ' If e'er with wreaths I hung thy sacred fane , Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain ; ' God of the silver bow ! thy shafts employ , Avenge thy ...
... light ! whom Tenedos adores , 55 ' And whose bright presence gilds thy Chrysa's shores : ' If e'er with wreaths I hung thy sacred fane , Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain ; ' God of the silver bow ! thy shafts employ , Avenge thy ...
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... light of heav'n to view ! So short a space ! and fill'd with sorrow too ! 545 " O might a parent's careful wish prevail , Far , far from Ilion should thy vessels sail , And thou , from camps remote , the danger shun , Which now , alas ...
... light of heav'n to view ! So short a space ! and fill'd with sorrow too ! 545 " O might a parent's careful wish prevail , Far , far from Ilion should thy vessels sail , And thou , from camps remote , the danger shun , Which now , alas ...
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... light , ' Then will I mount the brazen dome , and move 560 ' The high tribunal of immortal Jove . ' The goddess spoke : the rolling waves unclose ; Then down the deep she plung'd from whence she And left him sorrowing on the lonely ...
... light , ' Then will I mount the brazen dome , and move 560 ' The high tribunal of immortal Jove . ' The goddess spoke : the rolling waves unclose ; Then down the deep she plung'd from whence she And left him sorrowing on the lonely ...
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... light The gods had summon'd to th ' Olympian height : Jove first ascending from the wat❜ry bow'rs , Leads the long order of ethereal pow'rs . When , like the morning mist in early day , Rose from the flood the daughter of the sea ; 645 ...
... light The gods had summon'd to th ' Olympian height : Jove first ascending from the wat❜ry bow'rs , Leads the long order of ethereal pow'rs . When , like the morning mist in early day , Rose from the flood the daughter of the sea ; 645 ...
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Achilles Agamemnon Ajax arms Atridès bands battle beauteous bend beneath blood bold brave brazen breast chariot chief Chrysa combat command coursers crown'd daring dart descends Diomed dire divine dreadful Epeian Eurypylus ev'ry eyes fair fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames fleet force fury gen'rous glory goddess godlike gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste hear heart heav'n heav'nly Hector heroes Homer host Idomeneus ILIAD Ilion's immortal jav'lin Jove king lance Lycian maid martial Menelaus Menestheus mighty monarch Nestor night numbers o'er Pallas Patroclus Phrygian pierc'd plain pow'rs pray'rs Priam Priam's prince proud Pylian race rage reply'd sacred shades shakes shield shining ships shore Simoïs sire skies slain soul spear spoke stand steeds Sthenelus stood Swift tent Teucer thee thou thro thunder toils tow'rs trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydidès Ulysses walls warrior woes wound youth
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Page 15 - ... circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and science was delivered in a plainer manner ; it then became as reasonable in the more modern poets to lay it aside, as it was in Homer to make use of it.
Page 24 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence.
Page 194 - Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee: Alas! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall, Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share: Oh, prove a husband's and a father's care! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon wild fig-trees join the wall of Troy; Thou, from this tower defend the...
Page 13 - ... destroy the unity of action, and lose their readers in an unreasonable length of time. Nor is it only in the main design that they have been unable to add to his invention, but they have followed him in every episode and part of story. If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Page 57 - Nor mix'd in combat, nor in council join'd ; But wasting cares lay heavy on his mind : In his black thoughts revenge and slaughter roll, And scenes of blood rise dreadful in his soul. Twelve days were past, and now the dawning light 640 The gods had summon'd to th' Olympian height : Jove, first ascending from the watery bowers, Leads the long order of ethereal powers.
Page 181 - 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.
Page 10 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.
Page 51 - Not so his loss the fierce Achilles bore ; But sad, retiring to the sounding shore, O'er the wild margin of the deep he hung, That kindred deep from whence his mother sprung : " There bathed in tears of anger and disdain, Thus loud lamented to the stormy main...
Page 40 - As for its being esteemed a close translation, I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned.
Page 155 - So when th' embattled clouds, in dark array, Along the skies their gloomy lines display; When now the North his boisterous rage has spent, And peaceful sleeps the liquid element ; The low-hung vapours, motionless and still, Rest on the summits of the shaded hill ; Till the mass scatters as the winds arise, Dispersed and broken through the ruffled skies.