Essays & Miscellanies...Little, Brown, & Company, 1906 |
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Page 68 - E'en by that god I swear who rules the day, To whom thy hands the vows of Greece convey, And whose bless'd oracles thy lips declare; Long as Achilles breathes this vital air, No daring Greek, of all the numerous band, Against his priest shall lift an impious hand; Not e'en the chief by whom our hosts are led, The king of kings, shall touch that sacred head.
Page 47 - To wander with the wind in empty air; While the impassive soul reluctant flies, Like a vain dream, to these infernal skies. But from the dark dominions speed thy way, And climb the steep ascent to upper day, To thy chaste bride the wondrous story tell, The woes, the horrors, and the laws of hell.
Page 47 - Jove lifts the golden balances, that show The fates of mortal men, and things below: Here each contending hero's lot he tries, And weighs, with equal hand, their destinies. Low sinks the scale surcharged with Hector's fate; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight.
Page 77 - Hector! approach my arm, and singly know What strength thou hast, and what the Grecian foe. Achilles shuns the fight; yet some there are, Not void of soul, and not unskill'd in war: Let him...
Page 81 - My soul impels me to the' embattled plains; Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. " Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates...
Page 54 - IV. 104. us other hints from actions. As Euripides is reported, when some blamed him for bringing such an impious and flagitious villain as Ixion upon the stage, to have given this answer: But yet I brought him not off till I had fastened him to a torturing wheel. This same way of teaching by mute actions is to be found in Homer also, affording us useful contemplations upon those very fables which are usually most disliked in him. These some men offer force to, that they may reduce them to allegories...
Page 83 - ... of the brave. Think, and subdue ! on dastards dead to fame I waste no anger, for they feel no shame : But you, the pride, the flower of all our host, My heart weeps blood to see your glory lost ! Nor deem this day, this battle all you lose ; A day more black, a fate more vile ensues.
Page 407 - Clazomenian, that for several nights and days it would leave his body, travel over many countries, and return after it had viewed things, and discoursed with persons at a great distance, till at last, by the treachery of a woman, his body was delivered to his enemies, who burned the house while the inhabitant was abroad.
Page 476 - ... attendants, and enclosed himself in a great palace with many gates, and set out costly couches and tables, fancy to himself that, if he have not wisdom with them, these things will be his happiness, and an undisturbed, blissful, and unchangeable life. One asked Iphicrates the general, by way of taunt, what he was ? For he was neither spearman nor archer, nor yet bore light armor. I am (replied he) one that commands and uses all these. 6. In like manner wisdom is itself neither gold nor silver...
Page 22 - He only is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor command in order to be something. — Goethe. That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required, and necessaries are not wanting.