...above, and now art lord below — Wherefore, though dead, take heart, nor vex thyself with woe.' 68 ' Scoff not at death,' he answered, ' noble chief !...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine. But came my brave son to your wars, to shine First in the front of arms ? — This also tell : If to...

...take heart, nor vex thyself with woe.' 68 ' Scoff not at death,' he answered, ' noble chief ! Eather would I in the sun's warmth divine Serve a poor churl...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine. But came my brave son to your wars, to shine First in the front of arms ? — This also tell : If to...

...take heart, nor vex thyself with woe.' 68 ' Scoff not at death,' he answered, ' noble chief ! Bather would I in the sun's warmth divine Serve a poor churl...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine. But came my brave son to your wars, to shine First in the front of arms ? — This also tell : If to...

...himself tells us of his state in Hades : ' " Scoff3 not at death," he answered, " noble chief ! Bather would I, in the sun's warmth divine, Serve a poor...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.'" 1 We quote the original, for Pope's translation— though the best — is terribly artificial, especially...

...sought to give him comfort by reminding him of his power among the dead, may serve to prove this : — " Scoff not at death," he answered, "noble chief! Rather...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine." working of it upon earth. Just so, the first form in which revelation was clothed, was that of a law...

...fields, of metempsychosis, of absorption, of annihilation. What said Achilleus to Odysseus ? — " ' Scoff not at death,' he answered, ' noble chief !...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.' " If the yarn which Odysseus spun to Alcinous had any truth in it, most of us will agree with the Greek...

...annihilation. What said Achilleus to Odysseus ?— " ' Scoff not at death,' he answered, ' noble chief! Bather would I in the sun's warmth divine Serve a poor churl...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.' " If the yarn which Odysseus spun to Alcinous had any truth in it, most of us will agree with the Greek...

...late CHAP. XXX. Charon. 325 eventide : Hades is my husband, the tomb adopts me as her daughter."43 How closely the feeling of hopelessness in death,...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.' " 44 . The central figure in this lower-world mythology is the terrible Charon (Xapo?, Xapoira?). He...

...living dog is better than a dead lion : " — " Bather would I, in the sun's warmth divine, Serve some poor churl who drags his days in grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine. " Such was the immortality to which Paganism condemned even its best and bravest. One touching inquiry...

...gloomy regions—repeats the melancholy wish which Homer has put into his mouth in the Odyssey— " Rather would I in the sun's warmth divine Serve a...grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine." * Such is the tone of these Dialogues throughout,—a grim despair disclosing itself through their...