The Iliad of Homer, Volume 2S.F. Bradford, for J. Laval, 1822 |
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Achilles Æneas Ajax Antilochus arms Asius Atrides Automedon band battle Behold beneath blaze blood bold brave brazen breast breath chariot chief clouds coursers cries dart dead death Deiphobus descends divine dreadful dust E'en eyes falchion fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flame fleet flew flies force fury glory goddess godlike gods gore Grecian Greece Greeks grief groan hand head heaps heart heaven Hector hero honour'd honours host Idomeneus ILIAD Ilion immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance lov'd Lycian martial Menelaus Merion mighty mortal Neptune numbers o'er panting Patroclus Peleus Pelides Phoebus pierc'd plain Polydamas Priam prize proud race rage resound rise roll'd round sacred Sarpedon Scamander shade shield shining ships shore sire skies slain sorrows soul spear spoke stands steeds stern stood stretch'd swift tears Teucer thee Thetis thou thunder trembling Trojan Troy urg'd walls warrior wound youth
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Page 180 - With silent glee the heaps around him rise. A ready banquet on the turf is laid, Beneath an ample oak's expanded shade. The victim ox the sturdy youth prepare ; The reaper's due repast, the women's care.
Page 250 - Swift at the mandate pleased Tritonia flies, And stoops impetuous from the cleaving skies. As through the forest, o'er the vale and lawn, The well-breath'd beagle drives the flying fawn, In vain he tries the covert of the brakes, Or deep beneath the trembling thicket shakes; Sure of the vapour in the tainted dews, The certain hound his various maze pursues. Thus step by step, where'er the Trojan wheel'd, There swift Achilles compass'd round the field.
Page 256 - Unwept, unhonour'd, uninterr'd, he lies! Can his dear image from my soul depart, Long as the vital spirit moves my heart? If in the melancholy shades below, The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow, Yet mine shall sacred last; mine undecay'd Burn on through death, and animate my shade.
Page 269 - First march the heavy Mules, securely slow, O'er Hills, o'er Dales, o'er Crags, o'er Rocks, they go : Jumping high o'er the Shrubs of the rough Ground, Rattle the clatt'ring Cars, and the shockt Axles bound.
Page 178 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.
Page 97 - Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends ; White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud ; Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears \— So pale the Greeks the eyes of Hector meet, The chief so thunders, and so shakes the fleet.
Page 257 - Scarce the whole people stop his desperate course, While strong affliction gives the feeble force : Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun, Imploring all, and naming one by one : " Ah ! let me, let me go where sorrow calls...
Page 178 - Then first he form'd the' immense and solid shield ; Rich various artifice emblazed the field ; Its utmost verge a threefold circle bound; A silver chain suspends the massy round; Five ample plates the broad expanse compose, And godlike labours on the surface rose. There shone the image of the master-mind : There earth .there heaven, there ocean, he design'd ; The...
Page 244 - Then to the city, terrible and strong, With high and haughty steps he tower'd along. So the proud courser, victor of the prize, To the near goal with double ardour flies. Him, as he blazing shot across the field, The careful eyes of Priam first beheld. Not half so dreadful rises to the sight, Through the thick gloom of some tempestuous night, Orion's dog (the year when autumn weighs,) And o'er the feeble stars exerts his rays: Terrific glory!
Page 304 - With ten pure talents from the richest mine ; And last a large well-labour'd bowl had place (The pledge of treaties once with friendly Thrace...