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 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...conquest for his friend ; Officious with the cincture girds him round ; 791 And to his wrist the gloves of death are bound. Amid the circle now each champion...hands; With clashing gauntlets now they fiercely close, 79? Their crackling jaws re-echo to the blows, And painful sweat from all their members Mows. • At... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...friend; 790 Officious with the cincture girds him round; And to his wrist the gloves of death are hound. Amid the circle now each champion stands, And poises...fiercely close, ') Their crackling jaws re-echo to the hlows, 796 t And painful sweat from all their memhers flows. \ At length Epeus dealt a weighty hlow,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...gloves of death are bound. Amid tiie circle now each champion stands, And poises high in air hi* irou hands ; With clashing gauntlets now they fiercely...At length Epeus dealt a weighty blow. Full on the check of his unwary foe; Beneath that ponderous arm's resistless sway Down dropt he, nerveless, and... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 374 pages
...conquest for his friend ; Officious with the cincture girds him round ; And to his wrist the gloves of death are bound. Amid the circle now each champion...re-echo to the blows, And painful sweat from all their member* flows. At length Epi-us dealt a weighty blow Full on the cheek of his unwary foe ; Beneath... | |
 | Homer - 1822 - 342 pages
...conquest for his friend; Officious with the cincture girds him round ; And to his wrist the gloves of death are bound. Amid the circle now each champion...painful sweat from all their members flows At length Epuus dealt a weighty blow Full on the cheek of his unwary foe ; Beneath that ponderous arm's resistless... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 344 pages
...of conquest for his friend; Officious with the cincture girds him round; And to his wrist the gloves of death are bound. Amid the circle now each champion...> And painful sweat from all their members flows. j At length Ept'us dealt a weighty blow Full on the cheek of his unwary foe ; Beneath that ponderous... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1825 - 286 pages
...friend; Ofilcious with the cincture give's him round ; And to his wrists the gloves of death are hound. Amid the circle now each champion stands, And poises...fiercely close, } Their crackling jaws re-echo to the hlows, > And painful sweat from all their memhers flows. 3 At length Kpeiiit dealt a weighty hlow,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...conquest for his frieu J ; 790 Officious with the cincture girds him round ; And to his wrist the gloves at rule Sicilia's happy 795 Their crackling jaws re-echo to the blows, And painful sweat from all their members flows. At length... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...conquest for his friend; 790 Officious with the cincture girda him round ; And to his wrist the gloves d the purest air ; 5C Explorée the lost, the wandering Kpi>i» dealt a weighty blow Full on the cheek of his unwary foe ; Beneath that ponderous arm'» resistless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...; 790 Officious with the cincture girds him round ; And to his wrist the gloves of death are hound. nder Pope hlows, And painful sweat from all their memhers flows. At length Epeus dealt a weighty hlow Fall on... | |
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