The Story of TroyAmerican Book Company, 1897 - 254 páginas |
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Achilles Æneas Agamemnon Ajax anger Apollo Argive armor arms army arrow Aulis battle beautiful begged body Book XVIII Book XXIV brave brother BRYANT Calchas called chariot Chryseis combat command conflict Dardania daughter dead death Diomede earth enemy fate father fell fight fleet funeral goddess gods gold golden Grecian camp Greece Greek chiefs Greek warriors hand hastened heaven Hector Hecuba Helen Hercules Hesione Homer honor horses host hurled Idomeneus Iliad immortal javelin Jove Juno Jupiter King Priam Laomedon leaders Menelaus mighty Minerva Mount Ida Myrmidons Neptune Nestor Odyssey Olympus palace Pandarus Paris Patroclus Peleus perish plain POPE prince prize queen rejoicing rushed Scæan Gate seized sent ships shore siege slain slew soon soothsayer Spartan spear steeds sword tent terrible Teucer thee Thetis thou took Troas Trojan chief Trojan hero Trojan War Troy Ulysses Venus Vergil Vulcan walls weapon wife words wound wrath Xanthus
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Página 89 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse...
Página 96 - Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Página 70 - mid unfading bowers. Yet tears to human suffering are due ; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone, As fondly he believes. Upon the side Of Hellespont (such faith was entertained) A knot of spiry trees for ages grew From out the tomb of him for whom she died ; And ever, when such stature they had gained That Ilium's walls were subject to their view, The trees...
Página 38 - O mother, hear me yet before I die. I will not die alone, for fiery thoughts Do shape themselves within me, more and more, Whereof I catch the issue, as I hear Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills, Like footsteps upon wool.
Página 88 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain...
Página 57 - Two generations now had pass'd away, Wise by his rules, and happy by his sway ; Two ages o'er his native realm he reign'd, And now the example of the third remain'd.
Página 237 - With pious haste, but vain, they next invade; Twice round his waist their winding volumes roll'd; And twice about his gasping throat they fold. The priest thus doubly chok'd, their crests divide, And tow'ring o'er his head in triumph ride. With both his hands he labors at the knots; His holy fillets the blue venom blots; His roaring fills the flitting air around.
Página 56 - And crowded nations wait his dread command. High on the deck the king of men appears, And his refulgent arms in triumph wears; Proud of his host, unrivall'd in his reign, In silent pomp he moves along the main.
Página 77 - Atreus' royal race ; Ye kings and warriors, may your vows be crown'd, And Troy's proud walls lie level with the ground; May Jove restore you, when your toils are o'er, Safe to the pleasures of your native shore. To all he sued, but chief implor'd for grace The brother kings of Atreus
Página 69 - A generous cause a victim did demand ; And forth I leapt upon the sandy plain ; A self-devoted chief — by Hector slain.