The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, Volume 2Charles Knight, 1843 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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Achilles Æacides Æneas Ajaces Ajax amongst answer'd Antilochus arms Atrides Automedon bear blood blows bore brave breast brought call'd cast chariot command corse cried dame darts dead dear death Deiphobus deity Diomed divine doth drave earth either's Euphorbus eyes fair fate fear feet fell field fight fire fleet flew flood gave give gods grace Grecian Greeks hand haste hath head heart heaven Hector Homer honour horse host Idomeneus Ilians Ilion javelin Jove Jove's Juno king knees lance lov'd Lycia Menelaus Menesthius Meriones mighty mind Myrmidons Neptune never Patroclus Pedasus Peleus Phoebus Polydamas pour'd pow'r Priam prince prize rage rais'd reach'd renown'd Sarpedon shield ships slain slew soul spake spirit spoil Spondanus stand stirr'd stood strength struck sword tears tent Teucer thee Thetis thine thou took Trojans Troy Troy's turn'd us'd words wound yield
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Page 2 - 1 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
Page 2 - 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
Page 2 - D IN THE REALMS OF GOLD, AND MANY GOODLY STATES AND KINGDOMS SEEN ; ROUND MANY WESTERN ISLANDS HAVE 1 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
Page 82 - of vultures fight, Fly on each other, strike and truss, part, meet, and then stick by, Tug both with crooked beaks and seres; cry, fight; and fight and cry : So fiercely fought these angry kings and show'd as bitter galls. Jove (turning eyes to this stern fight) his wife and sister calls,
Page 6 - with Jove) stoop'd straight from that steep hill, That shook as he flew off; so hard his parting press'd the height. The woods, and all the great hills near, trembled beneath the weight Of his immortal moving feet: three steps he only took, Before he far-off JEgas reach'd; but with the fourth, it shook With his dread entry.
Page 94 - Sic hi quidem talia inter se loquebantur. Inter se intimating the meaning aforesaid. But our divine master's most ingenious imitating the life of things (which is the soul of a poem) is never respected nor perceived by his interpreters, only standing pedantically on the grammar and words, utterly ignorant of the sense and grace of him.
Page 202 - Of fate for Hector; putting in for him and Peleus' son Two fates of bitter death, of which high heaven receiv'd the one, The other hell: so low declin'd the light of Hector's life. Then Phoebus left him, when war's queen came to resolve the strife In th' other's knowledge : Now (said she), Jove-lov'd
Page 7 - And thus these deathless coursers brought their king to th' Achive ships. 'Twixt th' Imber cliffs and Tenedos a certain cavern creeps Into the deep sea's gulfy breast, and there th' Earth-shaker stay'd His forward steeds, took them from coach, and heavenly fodder laid In reach before them. Their brass hoofs he girt with
Page 156 - Achilles, far in rage, Thus answer'd him : It fits not thee thus proudly to presage My overthrow; I know myself it is my fate to fall Thus far from Phthia; yet that fate shall fail to vent her gall Till mine vent thousands. These words us'd, he fell to horrid deeds; Gave dreadful signal, and forthright made fly his one-hoof'd steeds.
Page 204 - of a lamb, or cuffs a timorous hare: So fell in Hector, and at him Achilles ; his mind's fare Was fierce and mighty, his shield cast a sun-like radiance ; Helm nodded, and his four plumes shook ; and when he rais'd his lance, Up Hesperus rose amongst th' evening stars. His bright and sparkling