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... thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony , in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand ; and various - measured verse , Æolian charms and Dorian lyric odes , And his who gave them breath , but higher sung , Blind Melesigenes ...
... thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony , in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand ; and various - measured verse , Æolian charms and Dorian lyric odes , And his who gave them breath , but higher sung , Blind Melesigenes ...
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... thou- sand of the troops of Xe'nias and Pa'sion , taking with them their arms and baggage , went and encamped under Clearchus . Cyrus , perplexed and grieved at these occurrences , sent for Clearchus ; who , however , would not go , but ...
... thou- sand of the troops of Xe'nias and Pa'sion , taking with them their arms and baggage , went and encamped under Clearchus . Cyrus , perplexed and grieved at these occurrences , sent for Clearchus ; who , however , would not go , but ...
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... Thou- sand was now accomplished , but much still remained to be done . The sight of the sea awakened in the army a univer- sal desire to prosecute the remainder of their journey on that element . ' Comrades , ' exclaimed a Thurian I 20 ...
... Thou- sand was now accomplished , but much still remained to be done . The sight of the sea awakened in the army a univer- sal desire to prosecute the remainder of their journey on that element . ' Comrades , ' exclaimed a Thurian I 20 ...
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... thou the Greeks their lawful prey should yield , The due reward of many a well - fought field ? The spoils of cities ... 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 ...
... thou the Greeks their lawful prey should yield , The due reward of many a well - fought field ? The spoils of cities ... 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 ...
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... thou threat to snatch my prize away , Due to the deeds of many a dreadful day ? A prize as small , O tyrant ! matched with thine , As thy own actions if compared to mine . Thine in each conquest is the wealthy prey , Though mine the ...
... thou threat to snatch my prize away , Due to the deeds of many a dreadful day ? A prize as small , O tyrant ! matched with thine , As thy own actions if compared to mine . Thine in each conquest is the wealthy prey , Though mine the ...
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Achilles admirable Æneas Æsop Agamemnon Agelaus Alcinous Anabasis ancient arms army Athenian Athens Barbarians battle better breast Bryant called chief Chirisophus Clearchus command course Cowper Cyrus dactyl dactylic hexameter dear deep Diomed divine doth encampment enemy English fair father fight foes friends gave genius give goddess gods grammar Greece Greek literature hand hear heart Hector hexameter Homer honor horse Iliad Jove Jupiter king Lamprocles land Latin Melanthius Menelaus mind mother night o'er Odysseus Olympus once Orontes parents passage perhaps Persian Phæacian poem poet poetry present Priam readers replied rest river satrap slain Socrates soldiers sound spake Sparta Spartan spears spirit spondee stanza suitors sweet taste Telemachus tell thee thine things thou thought tion Tiribazus Tissaphernes took translation Trojan troops Troy Ulysses verse whole words Worsley Xenophon Zeus δὲ
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Page 35 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly ; pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City, or suburban, studious walks and shades : See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus with the sound Of bees...
Page 194 - Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round : In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.
Page 173 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 128 - MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his...
Page 36 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions, and high passions best describing: Thence to the famous oraiors repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Page 142 - He on his impious foes right onward drove, Gloomy as night: under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God. Full soon Among...
Page 36 - The schools of ancient sages ; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next : There...
Page 141 - So spake the Son, and into terror changed His countenance, too severe to be beheld, And full of wrath bent on his enemies. At once the four spread out their starry wings With dreadful shade contiguous, and the orbs Of his fierce chariot roll'd, as with the sound Of torrent floods, or of a numerous host.
Page 37 - Artaxerxes' throne : To sage philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roof d house Of Socrates; see there his tenement, Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that water'd all the schools Of Academics, old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe...
Page 184 - And these all night upon the bridge of war Sat glorying ; many a fire before them blazed, As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak, And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart. So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed, before the towers of Troy, A thousand on the plain ; and close by each Sat fifty...