Homer's IliadWorld Publishing House, 1877 - 544 pages |
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Page vi
... appears , though attended with absurdities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we see nothing but its own splendour . This fire is discerned in Virgil ; but discerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more shining ...
... appears , though attended with absurdities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we see nothing but its own splendour . This fire is discerned in Virgil ; but discerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more shining ...
Page vii
... appear , which was able to clothe all the properties of elements , the qualifications of the mind , the virtues and vices , in forms and persons ; and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed ...
... appear , which was able to clothe all the properties of elements , the qualifications of the mind , the virtues and vices , in forms and persons ; and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed ...
Page viii
... appears in his Capaneus , ' Tydeus , Hippomedon , & c . They have a parity of character , which makes them seem brothers of one family . I believe when the reader is led into this track of reflection , if he will pursue it through the ...
... appears in his Capaneus , ' Tydeus , Hippomedon , & c . They have a parity of character , which makes them seem brothers of one family . I believe when the reader is led into this track of reflection , if he will pursue it through the ...
Page xi
... appears undisturbed in the midst of the action ; disposes all about him , and conquers with tran⚫ quillity . And when we look upon their machines , Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors , shaking Olympus , scattering the ...
... appears undisturbed in the midst of the action ; disposes all about him , and conquers with tran⚫ quillity . And when we look upon their machines , Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors , shaking Olympus , scattering the ...
Page xiv
... appears the inventor of poetry , but excels all the inventors of other arts in this , that he has swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him . What he has done admitted no increase ; it only left room for contraction or ...
... appears the inventor of poetry , but excels all the inventors of other arts in this , that he has swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him . What he has done admitted no increase ; it only left room for contraction or ...
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Achilles Æneas Agamemnon Ajax Antilochus arms Asius Atrides bands battle behold beneath blaze blood bold brave brazen breast breath chariot chief command coursers crown'd dare dart dead death descends Diomed divine dreadful dust Eurypylus Ev'n eyes fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames fleet flies force fury glory goddess godlike gods gore grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste heart heaven heavenly Hector hero honours host Idomeneus Ilion immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance Lycian martial mighty Mnestheus monarch mortal Nestor numbers o'er Pallas pass'd Patroclus Peleus pierced plain Polydamas press'd Priam prize proud Pylian race rage rise sacred shade shield shining ships shore Simoïs 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 141 - 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 152 - ... 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 deserved acclaim, And say, " This chief transcends his father's fame While pleased, amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart...
Page v - ... the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Page ix - The truth of it is, Virgil seldom rises into very astonishing sentiments, where he is not fired by the Iliad.
Page 210 - Yet hear one word, and lodge it in thy heart ; No more molest me on Atrides' part : Is it for him these tears are taught to flow ? For him these sorrows ? for my mortal foe ? A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows ; One should our interests and our passions be ; My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Page 270 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
Page 270 - Xanthus' streams enrich the Lycian plain, Our numerous herds that range the fruitful field. And hills where vines their purple harvest yield, Our foaming bowls with purer nectar crown'd, Our feasts enhanc'd with...
Page vii - Homer's poems into one, which is yet but a fourth part as large as his. The other Epic Poets have...
Page viii - ... of it, to which he takes care to give a tincture of that principal one. For example: the main characters of Ulysses and Nestor consist in wisdom; and they are distinct in this, that the wisdom of one is artificial and various, of the other natural, open, and regular.
Page 26 - With chosen pilots, and with labouring oars. Soon shall the fair the sable ship ascend, And some deputed prince the charge attend ; This Greta's king, or Ajax shall fulfil, Or wise Ulysses see perform 'd our will ; Or, if our royal pleasure shall ordain, Achilles...