 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...  Translation of the Iliad of Homer - Page 479by Homer, Alexander Pope - 1851 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...before this Sccean gate. He ceas'd. The Fates supprest his labouring breath, And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death ; To the dark realm the spirit...dreary coast, A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost ! EXTEACTS FEOM NIGHT THOUGHTS. BY YOUNG. PROCRASTINATION. BY nature's law, what may be, may be now... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...before the Scaean gate."5 He ceased. The Fates suppress'd his labouring breath, And his eyes stiffened at the hand of death ; To the dark realm the spirit...his eyes O'er the dead hero, thus unheard, replies : " Die thou the first ! When Jove and heaven ordain, I follow thee" — He said, and stripp'd the... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 pages
...before this Scsean gate." He ceased. The Fates suppress'd his labouring breatn, And nis eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death; To the dark realm the spirit...his eyes O'er the dead hero, thus (unheard) replies: 400 "Die thou the first! When Jove and Heaven ordain, I follow thee." — He said, and stripp'd the... | |
 | Homer - 1878 - 596 pages
...before this Scaean gate.' He ceas'd : 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, 455 (The manly body left a load of clay,) And plaintive elides along the dreary coast, A naked, wandering,... | |
 | Homer - 1883 - 524 pages
...before the Scaean gate." * He ceased. The Fates suppress'd his laboring breath. And his eyes stiffen'cl at the hand of death ; To the dark realm the spirit...his eyes O'er the dead hero, thus unheard, replies . " Die thou the first! When Jove and heaven I follow thee." — He said, and stripp'd the slain. Then... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...HOMERIC. THE DEATH OF HECTOR. HE ceas'd. The fates supprest his lab'ring breath, And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death ; To the dark realm the spirit...plaintive glides along the dreary coast, A naked, wand'ring, melancholy ghost. Pope's Homer's Iliad, Book XXII. in. Achilles says : — " OH Heaven,... | |
 | Homer - 1884 - 500 pages
...vultures of one limb of thee." He ceased. The Fates suppress'd his laboring breath, And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death ; To the dark realm the spirit...dreary coast, A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost! Then thus the chief his dying accents drew: "Thy rage, implacable ! too well I knew: The Furies that... | |
 | Homer - 1896 - 128 pages
...ceas'd: the fates suppress'd his laboring breath, And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death ; 455 To the dark realm the spirit wings its way, (The manly...melancholy ghost! Achilles, musing as he roll'd his eyes 460 O'er the dead hero, thus (unheard) replies: " Die thou the first! when Jove and heaven ordain,... | |
 | Homer - 1896 - 208 pages
...thee ; 430 Phoebus and Paris shall avenge my fate, And stretch thee here, before this Scaean gate." (The manly body left a load of clay), And plaintive...his eyes O'er the dead hero, thus (unheard) replies : 400 " Die thou the first ! when Jove and heaven ordain, I follow thee." He said, and stripp'd the... | |
 | Homer - 1896 - 232 pages
...before this Scaean gate." He ceas'd. The fates suppress'd his lab'ring breath, And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death ; To the dark realm the spirit...plaintive glides along the dreary coast, A naked, wand'ring, melancholy ghost ! Achilles, musing as he roll'd his eyes O'er the dead hero, thus (unheard)... | |
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