 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1853 - 398 pages
...Nine ells aloft they rear'd their towering head, And full nine cubits broad their shoulders spread. Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size, The gods they challenge, and affect the skies : Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. Such were they youths... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...Nine ells aloft they rcar'd their towering head, And full nine cubits broad their shoulders spread. e one Dr. Wagstaff's. skiea ; Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood ; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood : Such were... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 726 pages
...1.15. v. 23 " Headlong I hurled them from, the Olympian wall, It is said of Otus and Ephialtes,— " Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size, The gods they challenge and affect the skies: Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood, On Ossa Pelion nods with all its wood. Such were thy youths... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 888 pages
...whirl, and breathless with the fall."— IHID. //. 1.15. v. 23_ It is said of Otus and Ephialtes, — " Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size, The gods they clmlk-ngo and affect the skies: Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood, On Ossa Pelion noda with all... | |
 | Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson - Christian literature, Early - 1867 - 486 pages
...imitation of this in what the poet has ascribed to Otus and Ephialtes. For of them he wrote thus:1 " Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size,...challenge, and affect the skies. Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood ; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood." And the same holds good regarding the... | |
 | Saint Justin (Martyr) - Apologetics - 1868 - 494 pages
...imitation of this in what the poet has ascribed to Otus and Ephialtes. For of them he wrote thus:1 " Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size,...challenge, and affect the skies. Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood ; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood." And the same holds good regarding the... | |
 | Julian (Emperor of Rome) - Christianity - 1873 - 130 pages
...Aloidtc, who formed the design of placing three mountains on each other, that heaven might be accessible ? Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size,...tott'ring Ossa stood ; On Ossa Pelion nods with all his wood.f ODYSS. II. v. 315. t The translation is by Pope. For I say, that the one is in like manner fabulous... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 394 pages
...Nine ells aloft they rear'd their towering head, And full nine cubits broad their shoulders spread. Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size, The gods they challenge, and affect the skies : Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood ; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. Such were they youths... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...elvoai.<t>v\\ov, lv d/xwis d/ij3ar6s efi;." HOM. " The gods they challenge, and affect the skies : lleav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood ; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood." Poi'E. TO THE RAMBLER. SIR, "XT OTHING has more retarded the advancement of -^ ^ learning than... | |
 | Firdawsī - English poetry - 1892 - 450 pages
...Nine ells aloft they reared their towering head, And full nine cubits broad their shoulders spread ; Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size, The gods they challenge, and affect the skies. Both Siim and Mihrab, though far distant from the scene of felicity, were equally anxious to proceed... | |
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Proud of their strength and more than mortal size, The gods they challenge, and affect the skies; Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood: Such were the youths ! had they to manhood grown, Almighty Jove had trembled... 
