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... Greece restore , And Phoebus dart his burning fhafts no more . He said , and fat when Chalcas thus reply'd : Chalcas the wife , the Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehensive view The paft , the prefent , and the ...
... Greece restore , And Phoebus dart his burning fhafts no more . He said , and fat when Chalcas thus reply'd : Chalcas the wife , the Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehensive view The paft , the prefent , and the ...
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... Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he alone has fought and bled in vain . Infatiate king , ( Achilles thus replies ) Fond of the power , but fonder of the prize ! Would't thou the Greeks their lawful prey ...
... Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he alone has fought and bled in vain . Infatiate king , ( Achilles thus replies ) Fond of the power , but fonder of the prize ! Would't thou the Greeks their lawful prey ...
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... Greece I fear : for. Then shalt thou mourn th ' affront thy madness gave Forc'd to deplore , when impotent to fave : Then rage in bitterness of foul , to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe . He spoke and furious hurl'd ...
... Greece I fear : for. Then shalt thou mourn th ' affront thy madness gave Forc'd to deplore , when impotent to fave : Then rage in bitterness of foul , to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe . He spoke and furious hurl'd ...
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... Greece I fear : for late. With water purify their hands , and take The facred offering of the falted cake ; While thus with arms devoutly rais'd in air , And folemn voice , the priest directs his prayer : God of the filver bow , thy ear ...
... Greece I fear : for late. With water purify their hands , and take The facred offering of the falted cake ; While thus with arms devoutly rais'd in air , And folemn voice , the priest directs his prayer : God of the filver bow , thy ear ...
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... Greece I fear : for late was seen In clofe confult the Silver - footed Queen . Jove to his Thetis nothing could deny , Nor was the fignal vain that shook the sky . What fatal favour has the Goddess won , To grace her fierce , inexorable ...
... Greece I fear : for late was seen In clofe confult the Silver - footed Queen . Jove to his Thetis nothing could deny , Nor was the fignal vain that shook the sky . What fatal favour has the Goddess won , To grace her fierce , inexorable ...
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Achilles Ajax ANTISTROPHE arms Atrides beneath bold brave breaft cauſe chariot chief cloſe courſe courſers crown'd death deſcends divine dreadful Euryclea Eurymachus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fide fierce fight filver fire firſt flain fome forrows foul fuch Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground gueſt hand Heaven Hector hero Homer honours Iliad Ilion Jove juſt king labours laſt leſs loft moſt Muſe muſt numbers o'er obſerved Pallas Patroclus Peleus Pindar plain pleaſing poet praiſe preſent Priam prince race rage raiſe reſt rifing riſe roſe ſay ſcene ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhield ſhining ſhips ſhore ſhould ſkies ſky ſome ſon ſpeak ſpear ſpeed ſpoke ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtate ſtay ſteeds ſtern ſtill ſtood ſtore ſtorms ſtream ſtrength ſtrong ſuch ſwain ſweet ſword Telemachus thee theſe thoſe thou thunder toils train trembling Trojan Troy Ulyffes verſe Virgil whoſe woes wound youth
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Page 20 - 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 iv - Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist. In one we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty...
Page 331 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 38 - Lo, seven are offer'd, and of equal charms. Then hear, Achilles ! be of better mind ; Revere thy roof, and to thy guests be kind ; And know the men, of all the Grecian host, Who honour worth, and prize thy valour most.
Page 98 - But least, the sons of Priam's hateful race. Die then, my friend! what boots it to deplore? The great, the good Patroclus is no more! He, far thy better, was foredoom'd to die, And thou, dost thou bewail mortality?
Page 404 - O'erleaps the fences of the nightly fold, And tears the peaceful flocks: with silent awe Trembling they lie, and pant beneath his paw. Nor with less rage Euryalus employs The wrathful sword, or fewer foes destroys; But on th' ignoble crowd his fury flew; He Fadus, Hebesus, and Rhoetus slew.
Page iv - Homer, what principally strikes us is his invention. It is that which forms the character of each part of his work; and accordingly we find it to have made his fable more...
Page iv - Italian operas, will find more sweetness, variety, and majesty of sound, than in any other language or poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the critics...
Page 106 - 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 331 - His words are not only chosen, but the places in which he ranks them for the sound. He who removes them from the station wherein their master set them spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his: they must be read in order as they lie; the least breath discomposes them and somewhat of their divinity is lost.