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... troops they led , ' Safe in her vales my warlike coursers fed ; ' Far hence remov'd , the hoarse resounding main , ' And walls of rocks , secure my native reign , 200 " Whose fruitful soil luxuriant harvests grace , 205 ' 52 . Book I ...
... troops they led , ' Safe in her vales my warlike coursers fed ; ' Far hence remov'd , the hoarse resounding main , ' And walls of rocks , secure my native reign , 200 " Whose fruitful soil luxuriant harvests grace , 205 ' 52 . Book I ...
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... troops , and to divide them into their several nations , before they proceeded to battle . This gives occasion to the poet to enumerate all the forces of the Greeks and Trojans , in a large catalogue . The time employed in this book ...
... troops , and to divide them into their several nations , before they proceeded to battle . This gives occasion to the poet to enumerate all the forces of the Greeks and Trojans , in a large catalogue . The time employed in this book ...
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... troops to measure back the main , ' Be mine ; and yours the province to detain . ' 105 He spoke , and sat ; when Nestor rising said , ( Nestor , whom Pylos ' sandy realms obey'd , ) 100 Princes of Greece ! your faithful ears incline ...
... troops to measure back the main , ' Be mine ; and yours the province to detain . ' 105 He spoke , and sat ; when Nestor rising said , ( Nestor , whom Pylos ' sandy realms obey'd , ) 100 Princes of Greece ! your faithful ears incline ...
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... troops Ulysses rul'd , The loudest silenc'd , and the fiercest cool'd . 246 Back to th ' assembly roll the thronging train , Desert the ships , and pour upon the plain . Murm'ring they move , as when old Ocean roars , And heaves huge ...
... troops Ulysses rul'd , The loudest silenc'd , and the fiercest cool'd . 246 Back to th ' assembly roll the thronging train , Desert the ships , and pour upon the plain . Murm'ring they move , as when old Ocean roars , And heaves huge ...
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... troops to base , inglorious flight , 425 • Stand forth that Greek ! and hoist his sail to fly : ' And die the dastard first , that dreads to die . ' But now , O monarch ! all thy chiefs advise : Nor what they offer , thou thyself ...
... troops to base , inglorious flight , 425 • Stand forth that Greek ! and hoist his sail to fly : ' And die the dastard first , that dreads to die . ' But now , O monarch ! all thy chiefs advise : Nor what they offer , thou thyself ...
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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.