The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Belford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 pages |
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Page 54
... dust her lofty towers . ' * Then thus the king : " Shall I my prize resign With tame content , and thou possess'd of thine ? Great as thou art , and like a god in fight , Think not to rob me of a soldier's right . At thy demand shall I ...
... dust her lofty towers . ' * Then thus the king : " Shall I my prize resign With tame content , and thou possess'd of thine ? Great as thou art , and like a god in fight , Think not to rob me of a soldier's right . At thy demand shall I ...
Page 74
... dust . What shame to Greece a fruitful war to wage , Oh , lasting shame in every future age ! Once great in arms , the common scorn we grow , Repulsed and baffled by a feeble foe . So small their number , that if wars were ceased , And ...
... dust . What shame to Greece a fruitful war to wage , Oh , lasting shame in every future age ! Once great in arms , the common scorn we grow , Repulsed and baffled by a feeble foe . So small their number , that if wars were ceased , And ...
Page 75
... dust arise , The doubling clamors echo to the skies . E'en then the Greeks had left the hostile plain , And fate decreed the fall of Troy in vain ; But Jove's imperial queen their flight survey'd , And sighing thus bespoke the blue ...
... dust arise , The doubling clamors echo to the skies . E'en then the Greeks had left the hostile plain , And fate decreed the fall of Troy in vain ; But Jove's imperial queen their flight survey'd , And sighing thus bespoke the blue ...
Page 82
... dust be laid yon hostile spires , The following observation will be useful to Homeric readers : " Particular ani- mals were , at a later time , consecrated to particular deities . To Jupiter , Ceres , Juno , Apollo , and Bacchus victims ...
... dust be laid yon hostile spires , The following observation will be useful to Homeric readers : " Particular ani- mals were , at a later time , consecrated to particular deities . To Jupiter , Ceres , Juno , Apollo , and Bacchus victims ...
Page 97
... dust around Darkening arises from the labor'd ground . Thus from his flaggy wings when Notus sheds A night of vapors round the mountain heads , * The cranes . " Marking the tracts of air , the clamorous cranes Wheel their due flight in ...
... dust around Darkening arises from the labor'd ground . Thus from his flaggy wings when Notus sheds A night of vapors round the mountain heads , * The cranes . " Marking the tracts of air , the clamorous cranes Wheel their due flight in ...
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Achilles Æneas Agamemnon Ajax Antilochus arms Asius Atrides bands battle behold beneath blood bold brave brazen breast breath chariot chief command coursers crown'd dare dart dead death descends Diomed divine dreadful dust Eurypylus eyes falchion fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames fleet flies force fury glory goddess godlike gods gore grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste heaps heart heaven Hector hero Homer honors host Idomeneus Iliad Ilion immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance Lycian martial mighty monarch mortal Nestor numbers o'er Pallas Paradise Lost Patroclus Peleus Phoebus pierced plain press'd Priam prize proud race rage rise sacred Scamander shade shield shining ships shore Simoïs sire skies slain soul spear spoke stand steeds stern stood swift Teucer thee Thetis thou throne thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulysses Virgil walls warrior wound youth