Homer: the Iliad [a summary]. |
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... of those earlier authors whose taste was formed very much upon the old classical models , and whose writings are full of allusions to their characters and imagery . It may be said that we have translations of all vi ADVERTISEMENT .
... of those earlier authors whose taste was formed very much upon the old classical models , and whose writings are full of allusions to their characters and imagery . It may be said that we have translations of all vi ADVERTISEMENT .
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... taste and general accuracy , leave little to be desired . But the results of their work will be best enjoyed and valued by those whose acquaintance with the originals enables them to appreciate not only the positive beauty of the ...
... taste and general accuracy , leave little to be desired . But the results of their work will be best enjoyed and valued by those whose acquaintance with the originals enables them to appreciate not only the positive beauty of the ...
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... taste or that of their audience — often such as contained the exploits of some national hero . They followed pos- sibly in this the example of the great bard himself ; just as certain of our own popular writers have lately taken to read ...
... taste or that of their audience — often such as contained the exploits of some national hero . They followed pos- sibly in this the example of the great bard himself ; just as certain of our own popular writers have lately taken to read ...
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... taste . To be unacquainted with these masterpieces , was to be wholly without culture and education : and , thanks to their continual and public recital , this want was per- haps less prevalent amongst the Greeks than amongst ourselves ...
... taste . To be unacquainted with these masterpieces , was to be wholly without culture and education : and , thanks to their continual and public recital , this want was per- haps less prevalent amongst the Greeks than amongst ourselves ...
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... taste which has been built up by modern song and romance , must be warned at once that there is no love - story in either Iliad or Odyssey . Indeed , one remarkable point of difference between the imaginative writers of antiquity and ...
... taste which has been built up by modern song and romance , must be warned at once that there is no love - story in either Iliad or Odyssey . Indeed , one remarkable point of difference between the imaginative writers of antiquity and ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achilles Æneas Agamemnon Ajax Ajax the Greater Andromache Antilochus Apollo armour arms army arrow avenge battle beauty bids blood brave Briseis brother Calchas carried champion character chariot chief combat comrade counsel crown 8vo dead death Diomed Echepolus Edition enemy English eyes fate father favourite fierce fight galley give goddess gods Greece Greek hand heaven Hector Helen hero Homer honour horses host hurls husband Iliad immortal Jove Juno Jupiter king Laomedon legend Lycian medieval memnon Menelaus Minerva modern mortal mother mounts Myrmidons Neptune Nestor noble Odyssey Olympian Olympus once Pandarus Paris Patroclus poem poet popular Priam prize quarrel queen reader recognised remarkable romance round royal rushes scene shield ships shouts siege slain spear spirit stands Sthenelus story tale taste Teucer thee Thetis thou tion translation Trojan prince Troy Tydeus Ulysses Venus victory Vulcan walls warrior wife words wound wrath
Passagens conhecidas
Página 20 - Still strove to speak; my voice was thick with sighs, As in a dream. Dimly I could descry The stern black-bearded kings, with wolfish eyes, Waiting to see me die. "The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat, The temples and the people and the shore; One drew a sharp knife through my tender throat Slowly, — and — nothing more.
Página 30 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 85 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou!
Página 90 - Heaven permits, nor mine, though doubled now, To trample thee as mire ? for proof look up, And read thy lot in yon celestial sign. Where thou art weigh'd, and shown how light, how weak, If thou resist.
Página 59 - Back comes the Chief in triumph. Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.
Página 29 - Then shalt thou mourn the' affront thy madness gave, Forced to deplore, when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul, to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe.?
Página 27 - Olympus' heights he passed^ his heart Burning with wrath ; behind his shoulders hung His bow, and ample quiver ; at his back Battled the fateful arrows as he moved ; Like the night-cloud he passed ; and from afar He bent against the ships, and sped the bolt ; And fierce and deadly twanged the silver bow. First on the mules and dogs, on man the last, Was poured the arrowy storm ; and through the camp, Constant and numerous, blazed the funeral fires.