Pope's Translation of Homer's Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV, Book 1; Book 6; Book 22; Book 24Globe school book Company, 1900 - 152 pages |
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Pope's Translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 1; Book 6; Book 22; Book 24 Homer Homer,Alexander Pope,W. C. Lawton No preview available - 2017 |
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Achilles Æneid Agamemnon Ajax Andromache Apollo arms Athenè Atrides battle behold Book brave Briseïs Calchas camp chariot chief Chryses command couplet dead death Diomed divine dreadful English epic Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fate father field fierce fight fun'ral gates giv'n glory goddess godlike gods grace Grecian Greece Greek grief hand heart heav'n heav'nly Hector Hecuba Helen Helenus Hermes heroes Homer Homer says honours Idomeneus Iliad Ilion Iris Jove Jove's Juno Jupiter king Menelaus Minerva monarch mortal mournful Nestor o'er Odyssey Olympus Pallas Paris passage Patroclus Peleus perhaps Phoebus plain poem poet Pope Pope's pow'r pray'r Priam priest prince queen race rage rev'rend rhyme sacred Scamander scene shore sire skies slain sorrows soul spoke stern suppliant swift tears thee Thetis thou toils tow'r translation trembling Troad Trojan Troy Ulysses vengeance verse walls words wound wretched youth Zeus
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Page 151 - This textbook may be borrowed for two weeks, with the privilege of renewing it once. A fine of five cents a day is incurred by failure to return a book on the date when it is due. The Education Library is open from 9 to 5 daily except Saturday when it closes at 12.30.
Page 15 - 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 ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Page 41 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Page 54 - 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.
Page 54 - And such the hard condition of our birth: No force can then resist, no flight can save, All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom: Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Page 53 - 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...
Page 54 - Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth, And such the hard condition of our birth : No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle and direct the loom.
Page 43 - The honour'd author of my birth and name ; By his decree I sought the Trojan town, By his instructions learn to win renown, To stand the first in worth as in command, To add new honours to my native land ; Before my eyes my mighty sires to place, And emulate the glories of our race." 260 He spoke ; and transport fill'd Tydides...
Page 54 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore, As thine, Andromache! Thy griefs I dread; I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led, In Argive looms our battles to design, And woes, of which so large a part was thine: To bear the victor's hard commands, or bring The weight of waters from Hyperia's spring.
Page 18 - A treasure worthy her, and worthy me. ' .. Or grant me this, or with a monarch's claim This hand shall seize some other captive dame. The mighty Ajax shall his prize resign; Ulysses' spoils, or e'en thy own, be mine.