 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...valiant son ! Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away. And great Machaon to the ships convey. 635 A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. Old Nestor mounts the seat: beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god.... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...valiant son ! ' Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, ' And great Machaon to the ships convey. 635 ' A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, ' Is more than armies to the public weal.' Old Nestor mounts the seat: heside liim rode The wounded offspring of the healing god.... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...valiant son ! Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away. And great Machaon to the ships convey. 635 A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the puhlic weal. Old Nestor mounts the seat : heside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing God.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...\eleus' valiant Son l Ascend thy chariot, hase- with speei! away, And great Maehaim to the ships convey. A wise Physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." According to the accounts given by the Poets, not only Pod.dirins and Machaon, but even... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 352 pages
...dons' valiant son ! Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.' Old Nestor mounts the seat : beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...son of Esculapius, who was one of the physicians to the Grecian army at the siege of Troy, says, " A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Spenser, in his Fairy Queen, uses the word leech in the same sense that Butler here does,... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...Neleus' valiant son ! Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Old Nestor mounts the seat: beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 304 pages
...son t plain, 76. BB Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.' Old Nestor mounts the seat: beside him rode The wounded oft'spring of the healing god.... | |
 | Robert Finlayson (M.D.) - 1824 - 106 pages
...accompanied by a corresponding gratitude to the indefatigable labours of this distinguished individual. " A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, " Is more than armies to the Public Weal." It would be unpardonable to pass unnoticed, even in this short survey, the very popular... | |
 | Walter Scott - Crusades - 1825 - 324 pages
...from the Scottish knight the credentials which he had brought to king Richard on the part of Saladin. CHAPTER VIII. A wise physician skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the common weal. — Popt's Iliad" THIS is a strange tale, Sir Thomas," said the sick monarch, when he had heard the... | |
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the common weal. 
