The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Belford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 pages |
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Page 42
... proud confidence of the sub lime ; others sunk into flatness , in a cold and timorous notion of simplicity . Methinks I see these different followers of Ho- mer , some sweating and straining after him by violent leaps and bounds ( the ...
... proud confidence of the sub lime ; others sunk into flatness , in a cold and timorous notion of simplicity . Methinks I see these different followers of Ho- mer , some sweating and straining after him by violent leaps and bounds ( the ...
Page 49
... proud obstinacy of his character , persists in his animosity ; the army is again defeated , and is on the verge of entire destruction This inexorable man has a friend ; this friend weeps before him , and asks for the hero's arms , and ...
... proud obstinacy of his character , persists in his animosity ; the army is again defeated , and is on the verge of entire destruction This inexorable man has a friend ; this friend weeps before him , and asks for the hero's arms , and ...
Page 50
... proud walls lie level with the ground . May Jove restore you when your toils are o'er Safe to the pleasures of your native shore . But , oh ! relieve a wretched parent's pain , And give Chryseïs to these arms again ; If mercy fail , yet ...
... proud walls lie level with the ground . May Jove restore you when your toils are o'er Safe to the pleasures of your native shore . But , oh ! relieve a wretched parent's pain , And give Chryseïs to these arms again ; If mercy fail , yet ...
Page 55
... proud monarch , I'm thy slave no more ; My fleet shall waft me to Thessalia's shore : Left by Achilles on the Trojan plain , What spoils , what conquests , shall Atrides gain ? To this the king : " Fly , mighty warrior ! fly ; Thy aid ...
... proud monarch , I'm thy slave no more ; My fleet shall waft me to Thessalia's shore : Left by Achilles on the Trojan plain , What spoils , what conquests , shall Atrides gain ? To this the king : " Fly , mighty warrior ! fly ; Thy aid ...
Page 57
... proud monarch shall thy arms implore , And bribe thy friendship with a boundless store . Then let revenge no longer bear the sway ; Command thy passions , and the gods obey . " To her Pelides : - " With regardful ear , ' Tis just , O ...
... proud monarch shall thy arms implore , And bribe thy friendship with a boundless store . Then let revenge no longer bear the sway ; Command thy passions , and the gods obey . " To her Pelides : - " With regardful ear , ' Tis just , O ...
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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