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" 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,... "
From its beginning to the death of President Swain, 1789-1868 - Page 227
by Kemp Plummer Battle - 1907
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Horæ Propheticæ: or, dissertations on the Book of the Prophet Daniel

Joseph Wilson (minister of Laxton.) - 1824 - 368 pages
...with the Poets ; and hence Homer ( B. 22. v. 209 — 18 ) describes the approaching fate of Hector. " Jove lifts the golden balances, that show " The fates...destinies. " Low sinks the scale, surcharged with Hector's fate ; " Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. POPE. Virgil also adopting...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...mutandis, are applied to Hector and Achilles in the twenty-second book, and there are thus translated, Jove lifts the golden balances, that show The fates...with equal hand their destinies. Low sinks the scale turcharg'd with Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. The passage...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...and Achilles in the twenty-second book, and there are thus translated, Jove lifu the golden balance!, that show The fates of mortal men, and things below:...hero's lot he tries, And weighs with equal hand their de«tini«i. 1005 Low sinks the scale surcharg'd wila Hector's fale; Heavy with death it sinks, and...
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The Iliad of Homer: Books XIII-XXIV

Homer - 1825 - 286 pages
...honours of the day. Jove lifts the golden halances, that show The fates of mortal men, and things helow: Here each contending hero's lot he tries, And weighs, with equal hand, thsir destinies. Low sinks the scale surcharg'd with Hector's fata ; Heavy with death it sinks, and...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...lifts the golden halances that shew The fates of mortal men and things helow; Here each coutending 35 Like colour'd rainhows o'er a showery clond, (Jove's woudrous how, Hector's fate; 57Л Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. Then Phcehus left him....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...lance, Sign'd to the troops to yield his foe the way, And leave untouch'd the honours of the day. 870 Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates...their destinies. Low sinks the scale surcharged with Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. Then Phoebus left him. Fierce...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...halances that show The fates of mortal men and things helow; Here each contending hero's lot he tries, 1 tal mix'd, intrench'd the place : And pales of glittering tin the enclosure gra Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. Then Phoehus left him. Fierce...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...lance, Sign'd to the troops, to yield his foe the way, And leave untouch'd the honours of the day. aian race Shall heap with honours him they now disgrace."...Thetis spoke ; but Jove in silence huid The sacred Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. Then Phœbus left him. Fierce...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...lance, Sign'd to the troops to yield his foe the way, And leave untouch'd the honours of the day." 2 Jove lifts the golden balances, that show The fates...their destinies. Low sinks the scale surcharged with Hector's fate; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight, Then Pho3bus left him. Fierce...
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The Paradise Lost

John Milton - 1850 - 594 pages
...of scales. Book xxii. " Jove lifts the golden balances, Uiut show The fates of mortal men and thing! below ; Here each contending hero's lot he tries, And weighs, with equal hand. their destinirs. Low links the scale surcharged with Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell...
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