The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, المجلد 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1813 |
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Achilles Æneas Ajax Antilochus arms Asius Atrides Automedon band battle behold beneath blaze blood bold brave brazen breast breath chariot chief clouds coursers cries dart dead death descends divine dreadful dust E'en Euphorbus eyes falchion fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flame fleet flew flies force fury glory goddess godlike gods gore Grecian Greece Greeks grief groan hand head heaps heart heaven Hector hero honour'd honours host Idomeneus ILIAD Ilion immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance lov'd Lycian martial Merion mighty mortal Neptune numbers o'er Oïleus panting Patroclus Peleus Pelides Phoebus pierc'd plain Polydamas Priam prize race rage resound rise round sacred Sarpedon Scamander shades shield shining ships shore sire skies slain sorrows soul spear spoke stands steeds stern stood stretch'd Swift tears Teucer thee Thetis thou thunder trembling Trojan Troy urg'd walls warrior wound youth
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الصفحة 142 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.
الصفحة 194 - Thus 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.
الصفحة 40 - And stretch'd the servant o'er his dying lord. As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling shrubs between the hills; Then o'er the stubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the skies, This way and that, the spreading torrent roars: So sweeps the hero through the wasted shores; Around him wide, immense destruction pours And earth is deluged with the sanguine showers As with autumnal harvests cover'd o'er, And thick bestrown, lies Ceres...
الصفحة 33 - Ericas flies : yEnoas rousing as the foe came on, With force collected, heaves a mighty stone : A mass enormous ! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. But ocean's god, whose earthquakes rock the ground, Saw the distress, and mov'd the powers around : ' Lo ! on the brink of fate ./Eneas stands, An instant victim to Achilles
الصفحة 84 - Unbathed he lies, and bleeds along the shore ! Now from the walls the clamours reach her ear, And all her members shake with sudden fear: Forth from her ivory hand the shuttle falls, And thus, astonish'd, to her maids she calls: 'Ah follow me!
الصفحة 5 - Aurora heaved her Orient head Above the waves, that blush'd with early red, (With new-born day to gladden mortal sight, And gild the courts of heaven with sacred light,) The immortal arms the goddess-mother bears Swift to her son: her son she finds in tears Stretch'd o'er Patroclus' corse; while all the rest Their sovereign's sorrows in their own express'd.
الصفحة 78 - The mortal dart; resulting with a bound From off the ringing orb, it struck the ground. Hector beheld his javelin fall in vain, Nor other lance, nor other hope remain; He calls Deiphobus, demands a spear— In vain, for no Deiphobus was there.
الصفحة 131 - Transfix'd with deep regret, they view o'erthrown At once his country's pillar, and their own; A chief, who led to Troy's beleaguer'd wall A host of heroes, and outshined them all.
الصفحة 16 - Why boast we, Glaucus ! our extended reign Where Xanthus' streams enrich the Lycian plain, Our numerous herds that range the fruitful field, And hills where vines their purple harvest yield, Our foaming bowls with purer nectar crown'd...
الصفحة 123 - Now from the finish'd games the Grecian band Seek their black ships, and clear the crowded strand ; All stretch'd at ease the genial banquet share, And pleasing slumbers quiet all their care. Not so Achilles : he, to grief resign'd...