The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Belford, Clarke, 1884 - 500 pages |
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... rise to a boundless ocean of discussion , which has left us little save the option of choosing which theory or theories we will follow . The person- ality of Shakespere is , perhaps , the only thing in which critics will allow us to ...
... rise to a boundless ocean of discussion , which has left us little save the option of choosing which theory or theories we will follow . The person- ality of Shakespere is , perhaps , the only thing in which critics will allow us to ...
Page 52
... rising o'er the rest , Achilles thus the king of men address'd : " Why leave we not the fatal Trojan shore , And measure back the seas we cross'd before ? The plague destroying whom the sword would spare . ' Tis time to save the few ...
... rising o'er the rest , Achilles thus the king of men address'd : " Why leave we not the fatal Trojan shore , And measure back the seas we cross'd before ? The plague destroying whom the sword would spare . ' Tis time to save the few ...
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... rise dreadful in his soul . Twelve days were past , and now the dawning light The gods had summon'd to the Olympian height : Jove , first ascending from the watery bowers , Leads the long order of ethereal powers . When , like the ...
... rise dreadful in his soul . Twelve days were past , and now the dawning light The gods had summon'd to the Olympian height : Jove , first ascending from the watery bowers , Leads the long order of ethereal powers . When , like the ...
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... rise to sight , And thus commands the vision of the night . " Fly hence , deluding Dream ! and light as air , t To Agamemnon's ample tent repair . Bid him in arms draw forth the embattled train , Lead all his Grecians to the dusty plain ...
... rise to sight , And thus commands the vision of the night . " Fly hence , deluding Dream ! and light as air , t To Agamemnon's ample tent repair . Bid him in arms draw forth the embattled train , Lead all his Grecians to the dusty plain ...
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... rise or fall : He shakes the feeble props of human trust , And towns and armies humbles to the 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 ...
... rise or fall : He shakes the feeble props of human trust , And towns and armies humbles to the 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 ...
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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