...the rage his boiling breast forsook, Which thus redoubling on Atrides broke : — " O monster ! mixed of insolence and fear, Thou dog in forehead, but in heart a deer ! When wert thou known in ambushed fights to dare, Or nobly face, the horrid front of war ? 'Tis ours,...

...More.](POPE.) Nor yet the rage his boiling breast forsook, Which thus redoubling on Atrides broke: "O monster! mix'd of insolence and fear, Thou dog in forehead, but in heart a deer! When wert thou known in ambush'd fights to dare, Or nobly face, the horrid front of war? Tis ours,...

...skies. Nor yet the rage his boiling breast forsook, 295 Which thus redoubling on Atrides broke : 1 0 monster ! mix'd of insolence and fear, | Thou dog in forehead, but in heart a deer ! 'When \vert thou known in ambush'd fights to dare, Ot nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 |...

...original word. He allows Achilles to speak pretty vigorously to Agamemnon in the first book : — 0 monster ! mix'd of insolence and fear, Thou dog in forehead, but in heart a deer ! Chapman translates the phrase more fully, but adds a characteristic quibble : — Thou ever steep'd...

...A dog, in forehead; and in heart, a deer] from Pope, Homer's Iliad, i. 297-8: 'O Monster, mix'd in Insolence and Fear, | Thou Dog in Forehead, but in Heart a Deer!' 3 scorned to approve any thing] Hazlitt says the same of Croker in 'On Envy', where Croker 'at the...