 | John Milton - 1851 - 554 pages
...battle between Hector and Achilles, Jupiter weighed the event of it in a pair of scales. Book xxii. " 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." Virgil, before the last decisive... | |
 | Homer - 1853 - 336 pages
...lance, Sign'd to the troops to yield his foe the way, And leave imtouch'd the honours of the day. 270 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... | |
 | William Hooper - 1859 - 58 pages
...gazing gods lean forward from the sky, Jove lifts the golden balances that show, The fates of mortal man and things below ; Here each contending hero's lot...high powers the strife did arbitrate: Just then the Faulkner tripped, and prostrate fell, And on the sprawling body pitched Caldwell ! Having thus disposed'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...lance, Sign'd to the troops, to yield his foe the way, And leave untouch'd the honours of the day. his blood, His mother was a Nais of the flood ; Beneath...the shades of Tmolus, crown'd with snow, From Hyde' Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. Then Phoebus left him. Fierce... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 pages
...the Grecian balance lies Low down on earth : the Trojan strikes the skies." HOM. E. 1. vni. T. 68. " 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." IBID. 1. mi. v. 209. " Jove... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 424 pages
...píéffffa \aßuv pétre 5' "E/cropos ifX(TO &' «i'Aííao, \i-jrfv S¿ ¿ ФоГ/Зо5 'AiroXXaj»-. 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. See Grocott, p. 17. THE SOUL.... | |
 | Homer - 1865 - 302 pages
...lifted lance, Sign'd to the troops to yield his foe the way, And leave untouch'd the honours of the day. Jove lifts the golden balances, that show The fates of mortal men, aud things below : Here each contending hero's lot he tries, And weighs, with equal hand, their destinies.... | |
 | Homerus - 1870 - 552 pages
...lance, Signed to the troops to yield his foe the way, And leave untouched the honours of the day. 270 Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates...their destinies. Low sinks the scale surcharged with Hector's fate ; 275 Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight. Then Phcebus left him.... | |
 | Plutarch - 1870 - 534 pages
...fictitious colors upon them to ingratiate them to us. As when Homer says of Jupiter, — •fi .vi- lifts the golden balances, that show The fates of...their destinies. Low sinks the scale surcharged with Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight.§ To this fable Aeschylus... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...lifted lance, Sign'd to the troops to yield his foe the way, And leave untouch'd the honours of the day. 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 Phcebus left him. Fierce... | |
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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,... 
