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Achaia Achilles addreffed afar afcend Agamemnon Ajax aloft Argives Argos arms arofe aroſe Atrides battle bear beauteous began beheld beloved blood breaſt chief commands daughter death defcended Diomedes divine dreadful earth Eëtion Eurypylus facred faid fame father Jove feized fell fhall fhore fhould fhoulders fide field fight firft firſt flain flew fome fon of Atreus fon of Tydeus forward fpear fpoke friends fteeds ftood ftream ftrength ftruck fword goddeſs gods Greece Greeks halls hand heaven Hector hero himſelf hoft hollow fhips honoured hoſt Idomeneus Ilium Jove king lance leader lofty loved Lycians Mars Menelaus midſt Minerva moſt Neftor night o'er Oeneus paffed Pallas Patroclus Peleus poffeffed Priam Pylos rage raiſed renowned rouzed ruſhed ſaid ſhaft ſhall ſhe ſhips ſhore ſon ſpear ſpeed ſpoke ſpouſe ſpread ſtate ſteeds ſtood Teucer thee theſe Thoſe thou thy foul Trojans Troy Ulyffes urged voice warlike warriors words wound wrath
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Page xviii - ... new idea of the original to readers of real tafte. THOUGH nothing can be more difagreeable to the Tranflator, than even to mention either himfelf or his works, before the Public, he muft beg their indulgence, for a moment. He will, he owns, be much difappointed, if his readers will take the following verfion for MERE PROSE. Though he has avoided, with great attention, to fall into the cadence of the...
Page xix - ... of his ear, where the pointing does not occafion a ftop, the fall of the cadence is frequently marked, with a (hort line. NEXT to the giving, with...
Page xx - ... and the latter have been already exhaufted, by other writers. His opinion of his author's genius, he has already conveyed : his thoughts, concerning his perfon and the age, in which he lived, are fo...
Page 116 - ... the earth is floating round with blood. As when two rushing streams from two mountains come roaring down, and throw together their rapid waters below, they roar along the gulfy vale. The startled shepherd hears the sound, as he stalks o'er the distant hills ; so, as they mixed in fight, from both armies clamor with loud terror arose.
Page 244 - ... if printed thus : The wrath of the son of Peleus, O goddess of song, unfold. The deadly wrath of Achilles : To Greece the source of many woes ! Which peopled the regions of death. With shades of heroes untimely slain.
Page 326 - The fpirit of great Hector returned. His car again the hero mounts: And drives amain nmidft the crowd, — efcaped from the hands of death. The fon of Tydeus rufhing on, with his fpear, — fent, before him, his voice to the chief: " From death, thou had, now, efcaped.
Page 276 - I may levy the money upon the county." Somewhat similar to the Irish Eric was the custom of the ancient Grecians, in what were called the heroic ages. Homer, speaking in the person of Ajax, says, " a brother receives the price of a brother's blood : fathers for their slain sons are appeased. The murderer pays the high fine of his crime, and in his city unmolested remains."....
Page 116 - ... bards were there, feeble were the voice of a hundred bards to fend the deaths to future times ; for many •were the deaths of the heroes, and wide poured the blood of the valiant. Fingal. The following paflage in the 4th book of the Iliad is a defcription of a battle, wonderfully ardent.
Page 115 - ... with rage, and crown their tops, with the foam of the main. Thus rouzed, the ranks of the Argives moved, fucceflive, o'er the field to the fight.
Page x - But he feems to have trufted' to the immediate refburces of his genius> for the means of carrying him, through his journey. He advances, with apparent eafe : Nor feems he he ever to exert all his ftrength.