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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 hand hear heart Hector hexameter Homer honor horse Iliad Jove Jupiter king Lamprocles land Latin literature 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 word Worsley Xenophon Zeus δὲ
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Page 173 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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 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 184 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 128 - 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 men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
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 37 - 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 orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Page 182 - Heaven permits, nor mine, though doubled now To trample thee as mire : For proof look up, And read thy lot in yon celestial sign ; Where thou art weigh'd, and shown how light, how weak, If thou resist.
Page 181 - The pendulous round earth with balanced air In counterpoise ; now ponders all events, Battles, and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight : The latter quick up flew and kick'd the beam...
Page 35 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold 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...