The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1S.F. Bradford, for J. Laval, 1822 - 559 pages |
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Achilles address'd Agamemnon Ajax arms Atreus Atrides bands beauteous bend beneath blood bold brave brazen breast chariot chief Chryses combat command coursers crown'd daring dart descends Diomed dire divine dreadful E'en Epeians Eurypylus eyes fair falchion fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames force fury glory goddess godlike gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste hear heart Heaven heavenly Hector heroes Homer honours host Idomeneus ILIAD Ilion's immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance Lycian maid martial Menelaus mighty monarch Nestor night numbers o'er Pallas pass'd Patroclus Phrygian pierc'd plain press'd Priam's prince prize proud Pylian race rage sacred seiz'd shade shakes shield shining ships shore sire skies slain soul spear spoils spoke stand steeds stern Sthenelus stood swift thee thine thou throne thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Troy's Tydeus Tydides Ulysses Virgil walls warrior wound youth
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Page 226 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Page 17 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and truns' ports us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence...
Page 17 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Page 32 - 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 41 - But since for common good I yield the fair, My private loss let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain, That he alone has fought and bled in vain.
Page 37 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Page 292 - A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Page 178 - To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he sought her, but he sought in vain; She, with one maid of all her menial train, Had thence...
Page 12 - Every thing in it has manners (as Aristotle expresses it); that is, every thing is acted or spoken. It is hardly credible, in a work of such length, how small a number of lines are employed in narration. In Virgil the dramatic part is less in proportion to the narrative; and the...
Page 181 - 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 deserv'd acclaim, And say,' This chief transcends his father's fame :' While pleas'd amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart o'erflows with joy.