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Page xvi
... darts and bow , the ensigns of that god ; the other allegorical , with regard to the rays of the sun : therefore , in such places , where Apollo is represented as a god in person , I would use the former interpretation ; and where the ...
... darts and bow , the ensigns of that god ; the other allegorical , with regard to the rays of the sun : therefore , in such places , where Apollo is represented as a god in person , I would use the former interpretation ; and where the ...
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... darts around the world his rays : " O , Smintheus ! sprung from fair Latona's line , Thou guardian power of Cilla the divine ! Thou source of light ! whom Tenedos adores , And whose bright presence gilds thy Chrysa's shores ! If e'er ...
... darts around the world his rays : " O , Smintheus ! sprung from fair Latona's line , Thou guardian power of Cilla the divine ! Thou source of light ! whom Tenedos adores , And whose bright presence gilds thy Chrysa's shores ! If e'er ...
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... dart his burning shafts no more . " He said , and sat : when Chalcas thus replied ; Chalcas the wise , the Grecian priest and guide , That sacred seer , whose comprehensive view The past , the present , and the future knew : Uprising ...
... dart his burning shafts no more . " He said , and sat : when Chalcas thus replied ; Chalcas the wise , the Grecian priest and guide , That sacred seer , whose comprehensive view The past , the present , and the future knew : Uprising ...
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... darts . Incessant fly , and pierce the Grecian hearts . A prophet then , inspired by Heaven , arose , And points the crime , and thence derives the woes . Myself the first the assembled chiefs incline T'avert the vengeance of the power ...
... darts . Incessant fly , and pierce the Grecian hearts . A prophet then , inspired by Heaven , arose , And points the crime , and thence derives the woes . Myself the first the assembled chiefs incline T'avert the vengeance of the power ...
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... darts around , Atoned by sacrifice , desist to wound ! " At this , the sire embraced the maid again , So sadly lost , so lately sought in vain . Then near the altar of the darting king , Disposed in rank , their hecatomb they bring ...
... darts around , Atoned by sacrifice , desist to wound ! " At this , the sire embraced the maid again , So sadly lost , so lately sought in vain . Then near the altar of the darting king , Disposed in rank , their hecatomb they bring ...
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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...