Essays critical and imaginativeBlackwood, 1857 |
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... Minerva , and therefore we shall quote none of them - but go to the passage in which the goddess reveals herself to the goddess - born , and so far calms the roar within his soul , as does a sudden lull for a while that of the sea ...
... Minerva , and therefore we shall quote none of them - but go to the passage in which the goddess reveals herself to the goddess - born , and so far calms the roar within his soul , as does a sudden lull for a while that of the sea ...
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... Minerva swift descended from above , Sent by the sister and the wife of Jove ; For both the princes claim'd her equal care . Behind she stood , and by the golden hair Achilles seized ; to him alone confess'd , A sable cloud conceal'd ...
... Minerva swift descended from above , Sent by the sister and the wife of Jove ; For both the princes claim'd her equal care . Behind she stood , and by the golden hair Achilles seized ; to him alone confess'd , A sable cloud conceal'd ...
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... Minerva , sent by Juno , the protectress of both heroes alike , comes from heaven , and takes Achilles by his yellow hair , who , astounded , turns his head , and by her stern eyes re- cognises the Goddess . Now when Chapman says that ...
... Minerva , sent by Juno , the protectress of both heroes alike , comes from heaven , and takes Achilles by his yellow hair , who , astounded , turns his head , and by her stern eyes re- cognises the Goddess . Now when Chapman says that ...
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... Minerva's self - the Goddess of Wisdom - had given him the privilege to shoot through Agamemnon's heart the arrows of disdain - swift as those of death - and foretold that the day is doomed , when his great loss will be far greatlier ...
... Minerva's self - the Goddess of Wisdom - had given him the privilege to shoot through Agamemnon's heart the arrows of disdain - swift as those of death - and foretold that the day is doomed , when his great loss will be far greatlier ...
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... Minerva's eyes " living lightning " flew . But why should Mr Sotheby say what Homer did not — either in this passage , or in any other in the Iliad or Odyssey ? All the translators - except Pope perhaps have failed ; so difficult must ...
... Minerva's eyes " living lightning " flew . But why should Mr Sotheby say what Homer did not — either in this passage , or in any other in the Iliad or Odyssey ? All the translators - except Pope perhaps have failed ; so difficult must ...
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Էջ 61 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Էջ 394 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Էջ 437 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Էջ 78 - Yet, while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee : Alas ! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall. Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share : Oh ! prove a husband's and a father's care! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon wild fig-trees join the wall of Troy : Thou from this tower defend th...
Էջ 437 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Էջ 455 - Bos. Do you not weep ? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
Էջ 58 - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
Էջ 393 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; High actions, and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Էջ 160 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Էջ 112 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.