The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Belford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 pages |
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Page 36
... breath within is more powerful , and the heat more intense . To throw his language more out of prose , Homer seems to have affected the compound epithets . This was a sort of com- position peculiarly proper to poetry ; not only as it ...
... breath within is more powerful , and the heat more intense . To throw his language more out of prose , Homer seems to have affected the compound epithets . This was a sort of com- position peculiarly proper to poetry ; not only as it ...
Page 39
... breath , when his fancy suggested to him at once so many various and correspondent images . The reader will easily extend this observation to more objections of the same kind . If there are others which seem rather to charge him with a ...
... breath , when his fancy suggested to him at once so many various and correspondent images . The reader will easily extend this observation to more objections of the same kind . If there are others which seem rather to charge him with a ...
Page 51
... attributes ; for who could more appropriately impart to mortals what little foreknowledge Fate permitted of her decrees than the agent of her most awful dis Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And BOOK I.j THE ILIĄĎ .
... attributes ; for who could more appropriately impart to mortals what little foreknowledge Fate permitted of her decrees than the agent of her most awful dis Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And BOOK I.j THE ILIĄĎ .
Page 52
Homerus. Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The feet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hissing fly the feather'd fates below . On mules and dogs the infection first began ...
Homerus. Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The feet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hissing fly the feather'd fates below . On mules and dogs the infection first began ...
Page 87
... Breathing revenge , in arms they take their way From Chalcis ' walls , and strong Eretria ; The Isteian fields for generous vines renown'd , The fair Caristos , and the Styrian ground ; Where Dios from her towers o'erlooks the plain ...
... Breathing revenge , in arms they take their way From Chalcis ' walls , and strong Eretria ; The Isteian fields for generous vines renown'd , The fair Caristos , and the Styrian ground ; Where Dios from her towers o'erlooks the plain ...
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