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Page 43
... battle , and chagrined about it , said : " Do not grieve , my child , for with every step you take you will be reminded of your own valor . " Remember that the Ce - phis'sus was the river associated with Athens , as the Eu - ro'tas was ...
... battle , and chagrined about it , said : " Do not grieve , my child , for with every step you take you will be reminded of your own valor . " Remember that the Ce - phis'sus was the river associated with Athens , as the Eu - ro'tas was ...
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... battle , in which , hav- ing been wounded , the young Athenian knight had fallen helpless from his horse . Xenophon joined the expedition of Cyrus as one adventuring on his own private account , he having at first no regular official ...
... battle , in which , hav- ing been wounded , the young Athenian knight had fallen helpless from his horse . Xenophon joined the expedition of Cyrus as one adventuring on his own private account , he having at first no regular official ...
Page 81
... battle . This review took place at midnight . Ar extraordinary spectacle , to us it seems , for the placid moon to look down upon from her far - off watch - tower in the sky . But we do not know that the moon was shining . Perhaps ...
... battle . This review took place at midnight . Ar extraordinary spectacle , to us it seems , for the placid moon to look down upon from her far - off watch - tower in the sky . But we do not know that the moon was shining . Perhaps ...
Page 82
... battle , reduced by one quarter the numbers actually engaged on the king's side . men . During one day , after the midnight review , Cyrus marched in battle array , expecting a collision with the king . His reason for this expectation ...
... battle , reduced by one quarter the numbers actually engaged on the king's side . men . During one day , after the midnight review , Cyrus marched in battle array , expecting a collision with the king . His reason for this expectation ...
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... battle , Xenophon makes his first personal appear- ance challenging the notice of the reader . Cyrus was riding between the two lines , when Xenophon , for no reason in the world that appears , except to attract the particular attention ...
... battle , Xenophon makes his first personal appear- ance challenging the notice of the reader . Cyrus was riding between the two lines , when Xenophon , for no reason in the world that appears , except to attract the particular attention ...
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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 184 - 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 in the blaze of burning fire ; And champing...
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 37 - 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 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 127 - Death's harbinger : sad task, yet argument Not less but more heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles...
Page 7 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
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.