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... wrath grows to a storm ; a series of them , one ignited by another , is ever a sign that events of fatal importance are imminent . Nor are they in- variably long . When Athene saved Menelaus from death by the arrow of Pandarus she did ...
... wrath grows to a storm ; a series of them , one ignited by another , is ever a sign that events of fatal importance are imminent . Nor are they in- variably long . When Athene saved Menelaus from death by the arrow of Pandarus she did ...
Page 44
... wrath against Agamemnon has been swallowed up in his grief over the best of young men ; he will need to be wrath- ful still if Patroclus is to be avenged , but wrath now will be a ritual , ushering in the end . The savagery of Achilles ...
... wrath against Agamemnon has been swallowed up in his grief over the best of young men ; he will need to be wrath- ful still if Patroclus is to be avenged , but wrath now will be a ritual , ushering in the end . The savagery of Achilles ...
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... wrath of which Dante is certainly capable is no- where represented as sinful wrath , nor within the limits of the poem is he angry in his own person . But he is a perfect scholar in the passion . The angers of Virgil and The Divine ...
... wrath of which Dante is certainly capable is no- where represented as sinful wrath , nor within the limits of the poem is he angry in his own person . But he is a perfect scholar in the passion . The angers of Virgil and The Divine ...
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Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Alcinous allegory Athene Beatrice beautiful believe better body breath Byron canto Chaucer comes comic spirit courtesy Criseyde Dante Dante's dark death Diomedes Divine Comedy doth earth epic eternity Eumaeus Eurycleia eyes Faerie Queene father fear feel gods golden hath heart heaven Hector Hell Hephaestus hero Homer Iliad important irony Ithaca less light live look lover Lucretius matter mean Menelaus Milton mind mortal nature Nestor never night Odysseus once Pandar Paradise Patroclus peace Penelope persons Phaeacian poem poet poetry Prelude Priam Purgatory Pylos reader seems seen sense ship silence sleep song soul speak Spenser story style sweet tale Telemachus tell thee Thetis things thou thought told tragedy Troilus Troilus and Criseyde Trojans Troy truth turn unto Virgil wind words Wordsworth wrath Zeus