Homer: the Iliad [a summary]. |
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... leave little to be desired . But the results of their work will be best enjoyed and valued by those whose acquaintance with the originals enables them to appreciate not only the positive beauty of the English version , but its relative ...
... leave little to be desired . But the results of their work will be best enjoyed and valued by those whose acquaintance with the originals enables them to appreciate not only the positive beauty of the English version , but its relative ...
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... , and a wandering minstrel was no dishonoured guest , wherever he appeared , in days much later than Homer's . Somewhere on the coast of the Levant he died and was buried , leaving behind him that name INTRODUCTION . 3.
... , and a wandering minstrel was no dishonoured guest , wherever he appeared , in days much later than Homer's . Somewhere on the coast of the Levant he died and was buried , leaving behind him that name INTRODUCTION . 3.
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William Lucas Collins. died and was buried , leaving behind him that name which retains its spell hardly weakened by the lapse of some twenty - seven centuries , and the two great poems which have been confessedly the main source of the ...
William Lucas Collins. died and was buried , leaving behind him that name which retains its spell hardly weakened by the lapse of some twenty - seven centuries , and the two great poems which have been confessedly the main source of the ...
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... leaves him still an inmate of his palace , while he himself makes a It can hardly be necessary to do more than remind the reader how exquisitely this story is told in Tennyson's Enone . " 66 voyage to Crete . In the husband's absence ...
... leaves him still an inmate of his palace , while he himself makes a It can hardly be necessary to do more than remind the reader how exquisitely this story is told in Tennyson's Enone . " 66 voyage to Crete . In the husband's absence ...
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... leave his vast possessions , sent to the great king his celebrated mare Ethe , the fleetest of her kind , as his personal ransom . The bribe was accepted , and ( Ethe went to Troy instead of her luxurious master . The story has been ...
... leave his vast possessions , sent to the great king his celebrated mare Ethe , the fleetest of her kind , as his personal ransom . The bribe was accepted , and ( Ethe went to Troy instead of her luxurious master . The story has been ...
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الصفحة 20 - Still strove to speak; my voice was thick with sighs, As in a dream. Dimly I could descry The stern black-bearded kings, with wolfish eyes, Waiting to see me die. "The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat, The temples and the people and the shore; One drew a sharp knife through my tender throat Slowly, — and — nothing more.
الصفحة 30 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
الصفحة 85 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou!
الصفحة 90 - Heaven permits, nor mine, though doubled now, To trample thee as mire ? for proof look up, And read thy lot in yon celestial sign. Where thou art weigh'd, and shown how light, how weak, If thou resist.
الصفحة 59 - Back comes the Chief in triumph. Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.
الصفحة 29 - Then shalt thou mourn the' affront thy madness gave, Forced to deplore, when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul, to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe.?
الصفحة 27 - Olympus' heights he passed^ his heart Burning with wrath ; behind his shoulders hung His bow, and ample quiver ; at his back Battled the fateful arrows as he moved ; Like the night-cloud he passed ; and from afar He bent against the ships, and sped the bolt ; And fierce and deadly twanged the silver bow. First on the mules and dogs, on man the last, Was poured the arrowy storm ; and through the camp, Constant and numerous, blazed the funeral fires.