The Iliad of HomerG. Bell & sons, 1878 - 459 pages |
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Page xv
... once , and have had no occasion to go round with it for the inspection of each hero ; and therefore , as the heroes did not write on their lots , it is to be concluded that they could not write . When Bellerophon is sent by Prœtus to ...
... once , and have had no occasion to go round with it for the inspection of each hero ; and therefore , as the heroes did not write on their lots , it is to be concluded that they could not write . When Bellerophon is sent by Prœtus to ...
Page xxxiv
... once so many various and correspondent images . The reader will easily extend this observation to more objections of the same kind . If there are others which seem rather to charge him with a defect or narrowness of genius , than an ...
... once so many various and correspondent images . The reader will easily extend this observation to more objections of the same kind . If there are others which seem rather to charge him with a defect or narrowness of genius , than an ...
Page xxxvi
... once ; and if he has failed in some of his flights , it was but because he attempted every thing . A work of this kind seems like a mighty tree which rises from the most vigorous seed , is improved with industry , flourishes , and ...
... once ; and if he has failed in some of his flights , it was but because he attempted every thing . A work of this kind seems like a mighty tree which rises from the most vigorous seed , is improved with industry , flourishes , and ...
Page xxxix
... once shew his fancy and his judgment . As for Homer's repetitions , we may divide them into three sorts ; of whole narrations and speeches , of single sentences , and of one verse or hemistich . I hope it is not impossible to have such ...
... once shew his fancy and his judgment . As for Homer's repetitions , we may divide them into three sorts ; of whole narrations and speeches , of single sentences , and of one verse or hemistich . I hope it is not impossible to have such ...
Page xlii
... once a taste of poetry , and competent learning . For to satisfy such as want either , is not in the nature of this undertaking ; since a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern , and a pedant nothing that is not Greek ...
... once a taste of poetry , and competent learning . For to satisfy such as want either , is not in the nature of this undertaking ; since a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern , and a pedant nothing that is not Greek ...
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Achilles Agamemnon Ajax Antilochus arms Asius Atrides bands battle behold beneath blood bold brave brazen breast chariot chief combat command coursers crown'd dart dead death descends Diomed divine dreadful dust E'en Epeian Eurypylus eyes fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flame fleet flies force fury glory goddess godlike gods gore grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste heart heaven Hector hero Homer honours host Idomeneus Iliad Ilion immortal javelin Jove Jove's Juno king lance Lycian martial Menelaus Merion mighty monarch mortal Nestor numbers o'er Pallas Patroclus Peleus Phoebus plain Polydamas press'd Priam prince prize proud race rage rise sacred Sarpedon Scamander shade shield shining ships shore sire skies slain soul spear spoke stand steeds stern stood stretch'd Swift Teucer thee Thetis thou throne thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulysses walls warrior wound youth
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Page 113 - 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 22 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith ? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go forth, and do so.
Page 154 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 123 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scar'd at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest.
Page 123 - ... ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers, protect my son ! Grant him like me to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown ; Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age ! So when, triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain, he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him, with deserv'd acclaim, And say, this chief transcends his father's fame : While pleas'd amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart...
Page 123 - No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom : Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Page xliii - Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, to poor, Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 406 - Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes ; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep-echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down.
Page 122 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Page xxvi - 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...