The Iliad of Homer

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Milford Oxford University Press, 1902 - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 508 pages

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Page 97 - more—but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom : •Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Page 98 - Through all her train the soft infection ran; The pious maids their mingled sorrows shed, And mourn the living Hector, as the dead. But now, no longer deaf to honour's call, Forth issues Paris from the palace wall. In brazen arms that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his
Page 102 - And lock'd by hell's inexorable doors ; As deep beneath the infernal centre hurl'd, As from that centre to the ethereal world. Let him who tempts me, dread those dire abodes: And know, the Almighty is the god of gods. League all your forces, then, ye powers above, Join all, and try the omnipotence of Jove.
Page 96 - Attaint the lustre of my former name, Should Hector basely quit the field of fame ? My early youth was bred to martial pains, My soul impels me to the embattled plains ! Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own.
Page xv - will be brighter; as that is more strong, this will become more perspicuous : like glass in the furnace, which grows to a greater magnitude, and refines to a greater clearness, only as the breath within is more powerful, and the heat more intense. Lastly, if we consider his versification, we shall be
Page 97 - pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart o'erflows with joy." "Andromache ! my soul's far better part, Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart ? n'o hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb,
Page 94 - A widow I, a helpless orphan he? For sure such courage length of life denies, And thou must fall, thy virtue's sacrifice. Greece in her single heroes strove in vain ; Now hosts oppose thee, and thou must be slain. Oh grant me, gods, ere Hector meets his doom, All 1 can ask of heaven, an early tomb ! So
Page 2 - For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor's chain. Suppliant the venerable father stands ; Apollo's awful ensigns grace his hands : By these he begs; and lowly bending down, Extends the sceptre and the laurel crown. He sued to all, but chief implored for grace The brother-kings, of Atreus
Page xxv - of style, which his friends must agree together to call simplicity, and the rest of the world will call dulness. There is a graceful and dignified simplicity, as well as a bold and sordid one ; which differ as much from each other as the air of a plain man from that of a sloven
Page 267 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team ; And great Orion's more refulgent beam ; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on the ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.

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