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Achilles Ajax appear armies arms bands battle bear beneath blood bold brave breast calls chariot chief combat command coursers dart dead death deep descends divine dreadful earth Edited eyes fair fall fame fate father fear fell field fierce fight fire flame flies force Full fury give glory goddess gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste head hear heart heaven Hector hero Homer honours host Jove king lance late lies live mighty mind mortal night o'er once Patroclus plain prize proud race rage replies rest rise sacred shade shield shining ships shore side sire skies slain sons soul sound spear spoke spread stand steeds stood Swift thee thou thunder train Translated trembling Trojan troops Troy turns Ulysses vain vols walls warrior whole wound youth
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Էջ 152 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Էջ 16 - II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbance of France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
Էջ 152 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Էջ 18 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5^. each. Life of Mary Queen of Scots. 2 vols. 5.?.
Էջ xxiv - ... forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes is of the most animated nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing- lives, and is put in action. If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person ; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Էջ 25 - Forman. 5 vols. Spenser. Edited by J. Payne Collier. 5 vols. Surrey. Edited by J. Yeowell. Swift. Edited by the Bev. J. Mitford. 3 vols. Thomson. Edited by the Bev.
Էջ 9 - Fairy Mythology, illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries. Revised Edition, with Frontispiece by Cruikshank.
Էջ 21 - Aids to Reflection, and the CONFESSIONS OF AN INQUIRING SPIRIT, to which are added the ESSAYS ON FAITH and the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.