 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.  The Iliad of Homer - Page 406by Homer - 1878 - 459 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...spreading woods (Fair Ida, water'd with descending floods), 145 Lond sounds the ax, redoubling strokes ou strokes; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks...the same rough road return. The sturdy woodmen equal burdens bore (Snch charge was given them} to the sandy shore; il 1 " rc, on the spot which great Achilles... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...mounts exulting on triumphant wings. The following verse gives us the sound of felling trees in a wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. In the succeeding... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...stroke,; On all sides round the fun st hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep-echoing groan the thickets hrown; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. The wood the Grecians cleave, prepar'd to hurn ; And the slow mules the same rongh road return. Tlie sturdy wood:nen equal hurdens hore (Such... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...sbockt axles But when arriv'd at Ida's spreading woods [bound. (Fair Ida water'd with descending floods) loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...down. The wood the Grecians cleave, prepar'd to burn j And the ••';««• imib'i the same rough road return. The sturdy woodmen equal burdens bore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...But when arriv'd at Ida's spread ing woods [bound. (Fair ida watcr'd with descending floods) l .und sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes ; On...thunder down. The wood the Grecians cleave, prepar'd toVjm ; And the slow mules the same rough road return. The sturdy woodmen equal burdi-ns bore (Such... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...descending floods) Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes ; On all tides round the forest hin U her oaks Headlong. Deep-echoing groan the thickets...down. The wood the Grecians cleave, prepar'd to burn ; And the slow mules the same rough road return. The sturdy woodmen equal burdens bore (Such charge... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes, On all sides round the forest hurl&her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown : Then rustling, crackling, crashing,... | |
 | William Aiton - 1811 - 438 pages
...Diane in Sevtr. ing the fens df the island. With justice therefore it might at that time' be said, " Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes,...all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong : deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down." WHITAKER'S... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...Xot so when'swift Camilla scours the plain, Flic* o'erth' unbending corn, and skims along themain^ Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Fellmg trees... | |
 | 1813 - 374 pages
...axles But when arriv'd at Ida's spreading woods, [bound. (Fair Ida, water'd with descending floods) Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep-echoing groan thethickets brown ; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. The wood the Grecians cleave,... | |
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