The Iliad of Homer, Volume 2R.W. Pomeroy, 1840 |
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Achilles Ajax Antilochus arms Asius Atrides band battle Behold beneath blaze blood bold brave brazen breast breath chariot chief clouds corse coursers cries dame dart dead death Deiphobus divine dreadful dust E'en Euphorbus eyes falchion fall fame fate fear fell field fierce fight fire fix'd flame flew flies force fury glory Goddess godlike Gods gore Grecian Greece Greeks grief groan hand head heaps heart heaven Hector hero hero's honour'd honours host Idomeneus Ilion immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance lov'd Lycian Merion mortal Neptune numbers o'er Oïleus Pallas panting Patroclus Peleus Pelides Phoebus pierc'd plain Polydamas Priam prize race rage resound rise roll'd round sacred Scamander shade shield shining ships shore Simoïs 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 39 - In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Page 209 - Their Hector on the pile they should not see, Nor rob the vultures of one limb of thee. Then thus the chief his dying accents drew : Thy rage implacable too well I knew ; The Furies that relentless breast have steel'd, And...
Page 159 - Not through our crime, or slowness in the course, Fell thy Patroclus, but by heavenly force ; The bright far-shooting god who gilds the day (Confest we saw him) tore his arms away. No — could our swiftness o'er the winds prevail, Or beat the pinions of the western gale, All were in vain — the fates thy death demand, Due to a mortal and immortal hand.
Page 219 - tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; th' immortal mind remains: The form subsists without the body's aid, Aerial semblance, and an empty shade...
Page 211 - 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 4 - Th' enormous monsters, rolling o'er the deep, Gambol around him on the wat'ry way; And heavy whales in awkward measures play: The sea subsiding spreads a level plain, Exults, and owns the monarch of the main; The parting waves before his coursers fly; The wond'ring waters leave his axle dry.
Page 69 - 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 246 - Thought follows thought, and tear succeeds to tear. And now supine, now prone, the hero lay, Now shifts his side, impatient for the day : Then starting up, disconsolate he goes Wide on the lonely beach to vent his woes.
Page 29 - The chiefs you seek on yonder shore lie slain; Of all those heroes, two alone remain; Deiphobus, and Helenus the seer, Each now disabled by a hostile spear. Go then, successful, where thy soul inspires: This heart and hand shall second all thy fires: What with this arm I can, prepare to know, Till death for death be paid, and blow for blow. But 'tis not ours, with forces not our own To combat: strength is of the gods alone.
Page 240 - Buoy'd by some inward force, he seems to swim, And feels a pinion lifting every limb.