The Iliad of Homer, Volume 5Charles Rivington, 1760 |
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Achilles Achilles's Æneas againſt Ajax anſwer Antilochus Apollo armour arms Atrides battle becauſe befide brave breaſt cauſe chariot cloſe Dacier darkneſs dead death defcend defcribed deſcription dreadful Eneas Euftathius Euphorbus eyes facred faid fame fate fays feems fent fhall fhew fhould fide field fight filver fince fire firſt flain flies fome forrow fpear fpeech ftand ftill fubject fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Greece Greeks hand heav'n Hector hero himſelf Homer horſes Iliad Ilion itſelf Jove Juno Jupiter Laomedon laſt Lycaon Menelaus mortal moſt muſt Neptune o'er obferves occafion paffage Pallas Patroclus Peleus plain poet pow'rs prefent preferves Priam rage raiſed reafon repreſented rife round ruſhing ſaid ſay Scamander ſcene ſhall ſhe ſhining ſhore ſkies ſome ſpeak ſpear ſpread ſtand ſteeds ſtill ſtood ſtream terrour thee thefe theſe Thetis thofe thoſe thou thro tremble Trojan Troy uſe Virgil Vulcan warriour whofe whoſe Xanthus
Populaire passages
Pagina 105 - Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite ; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed : The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute, and cittern's silver sound : Through the fair streets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show.
Pagina 54 - be it then thy care, With Merion's aid, the weighty corse to rear ; Myself and my bold brother will sustain The shock of Hector and his charging train : Nor fear we armies, fighting side by side ; What Troy can dare, we have already tried — Have tried it, and have stood.
Pagina 249 - Tis not on me thy rage should heap the dead. See! my choked streams no more their course can keep, Nor roll their wonted tribute to the deep. Turn then, impetuous! from our injured flood; Content, thy slaughters could amaze a god.
Pagina 81 - Struck from the walls, the echoes float on high, And the round bulwarks and thick towers reply ; So high his brazen voice the hero rear'd, Hosts...
Pagina 227 - Shall lay this dreadful hero in the dust, Let then the furies of that arm be known, Secure no Grecian force transcends thy own.' With that, he left him wondering as he lay, Then from Achilles...
Pagina 173 - The first, the dearest partner of his love; That rites divine should ratify the band, And make me empress in his native land. Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!
Pagina 279 - His shield, a broad circumference, he bore. Then, graceful, as he stood in act to throw The lifted javelin, thus...
Pagina 112 - And pales of glittering tin the' enclosure grace. To this, one pathway gently winding -leads, Where march a train with baskets on their heads, ( Fair maids and blooming youths) that smiling bear The purple product of the
Pagina 168 - The scale of conquest ever wavering lies, Great Jove but turns it, and the victor dies ! The great, the bold, by thousands daily fall, And endless were the grief to weep for all. Eternal sorrows what avails to shed? Greece...
Pagina 254 - Neptune, and the blue-eyed maid. Stay, and the furious flood shall cease to rave Tis not thy fate to glut his angry wave. But thou, the counsel heaven suggests, attend!