...not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. Reality was rapidly rejecting the heroic ideal. Nothing was sacred, not even Achilles' arms, at least...

...king among the dead ! But Achilles replies : Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom — Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred Monarch of the Dead. These words are a tolerable sarcasm on Mr. Gladstone's absurd admiration of Homer's Inferno. So insipid,...

...not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words, he cried, can ease my doom. Rattier I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptered monarch of the dead. Another important inquiry has reference to the doctrine of rewards which...

...Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptered monarch of the dead" "where, as Kipling has it, there ain't no Ten Commandments and the best...

...he talks in a quite contrary strain, or at least with the greatest possible uncertainty. J Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the scepter'd monarch of the dead. Pope's Od. XL 593—600. * Plato's Phado, in Leland, CR II. pp. 338,...

...cried) can ease my doom. ^"' Rattier I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe tho vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead." — Poft. He then asks for information about the character and conduct of his son, and the condition...