The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volumen2

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Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1813
 

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Página 142 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.
Página 194 - Thus the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round: In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.
Página 40 - And stretch'd the servant o'er his dying lord. As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling shrubs between the hills; Then o'er the stubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the skies, This way and that, the spreading torrent roars: So sweeps the hero through the wasted shores; Around him wide, immense destruction pours And earth is deluged with the sanguine showers As with autumnal harvests cover'd o'er, And thick bestrown, lies Ceres...
Página 33 - Ericas flies : yEnoas rousing as the foe came on, With force collected, heaves a mighty stone : A mass enormous ! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. But ocean's god, whose earthquakes rock the ground, Saw the distress, and mov'd the powers around : ' Lo ! on the brink of fate ./Eneas stands, An instant victim to Achilles
Página 84 - Unbathed he lies, and bleeds along the shore ! Now from the walls the clamours reach her ear, And all her members shake with sudden fear: Forth from her ivory hand the shuttle falls, And thus, astonish'd, to her maids she calls: 'Ah follow me!
Página 5 - Aurora heaved her Orient head Above the waves, that blush'd with early red, (With new-born day to gladden mortal sight, And gild the courts of heaven with sacred light,) The immortal arms the goddess-mother bears Swift to her son: her son she finds in tears Stretch'd o'er Patroclus' corse; while all the rest Their sovereign's sorrows in their own express'd.
Página 78 - The mortal dart; resulting with a bound From off the ringing orb, it struck the ground. Hector beheld his javelin fall in vain, Nor other lance, nor other hope remain; He calls Deiphobus, demands a spear— In vain, for no Deiphobus was there.
Página 131 - Transfix'd with deep regret, they view o'erthrown At once his country's pillar, and their own; A chief, who led to Troy's beleaguer'd wall A host of heroes, and outshined them all.
Página 16 - Why boast we, Glaucus ! our extended reign Where Xanthus' streams enrich the Lycian plain, Our numerous herds that range the fruitful field, And hills where vines their purple harvest yield, Our foaming bowls with purer nectar crown'd...
Página 123 - Now from the finish'd games the Grecian band Seek their black ships, and clear the crowded strand ; All stretch'd at ease the genial banquet share, And pleasing slumbers quiet all their care. Not so Achilles : he, to grief resign'd...

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