Translation of the Iliad of HomerS. Andrus and son, 1851 - 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 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 ...
Page xvi
... appear little or ridiculous translated literally " leaf - shaking , " but affords a majestic idea in the periphrasis : " The lofty mountain shakes his waving woods . " Others , that admit of differing significa- tions , may receive an ...
... appear little or ridiculous translated literally " leaf - shaking , " but affords a majestic idea in the periphrasis : " The lofty mountain shakes his waving woods . " Others , that admit of differing significa- tions , may receive an ...
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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 xix - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
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 ix - The truth of it is, Virgil seldom rises into very astonishing sentiments, where he is not fired by the Iliad.
Page 479 - He ceased. The Fates suppress'd his labouring breath, And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death; To the dark realm the spirit wings its way (The manly body left a load of clay,) And plaintive glides along the dreary coast, A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost! Achilles, musing as he roll'd his eyes O'er the dead hero, thus (unheard) replies; Die thou the first! When Jove and Heaven ordain, I follow thee...
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 ix - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Page 153 - Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. The wanton courser thus with reins unbound Breaks from his stall, and beats the trembling ground ; Pamper'd and proud, he seeks the wonted tides, And laves, in height of blood, his shining sides...
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. 390 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 tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us Glory gain, or Glory give!
Page ix - Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only Poet who had found out Living Words ; there are in him more daring Figures and Metaphors than in any good Author whatever. An Arrow is impatient to be on the Wing, a Weapon thirsts to drink the Blood of an Enemy, and the like.