Story of the Trojan war: an epitome, from classic writers

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1874 - 329 sivua
 

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Sivu 291 - Fill the wide circle of the' eternal year: Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime: The fields are florid^ with unfading prime: From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the bless'd inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Sivu xiv - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Sivu 113 - Or if thy soul aspire to fiercer deeds, Urge thou the slaughter, while I seize the steeds.
Sivu 174 - And stretch'd the servant o'er his dying lord. As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling shrubs between the hills; Then o'er the stubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the skies, This way and that, the spreading torrent roars: So sweeps the hero through the wasted shores; Around him wide, immense destruction pours And earth is deluged with the sanguine showers As with autumnal harvests cover'd o'er, And thick bestrown, lies Ceres...
Sivu 69 - It breaks upon the beach, and from the crags Recoiling flings in giant curves its head Aloft, and tosses high the wild sea-spray: Column on column, so the hosts of Greece Pour'd, ceaseless, to the war...
Sivu 260 - Troy is no more, and Ilium was a town! The fatal day, th' appointed hour, is come, When wrathful Jove's irrevocable doom Transfers the Trojan state to Grecian hands. The fire consumes the town, the foe commands; And armed hosts, an unexpected force, Break from the bowels of the fatal horse.
Sivu 197 - Hades' gloomy gates; ere those be done, The spirits and spectres of departed men Drive me far from them, nor allow to cross Th' abhorred river; but forlorn and sad I wander through the wide-spread realms of night. And give me now thy hand, whereon to weep; For never more, when laid upon the pyre, Shall I return from Hades; never more, Apart from all our comrades, shall we two, As friends, sweet counsel take; for me, stern Death, The common lot of man, has...
Sivu 327 - ROMANCE AND REALITY. By LEL, with a full Memoir and Portrait of the Author, and other Illustrations. " Thus have I begun : And 'tis my hope to end successfully." 3. THE ROYAL HOLIDAY AND YOUNO- STUDENT'S BOOK : Being the " Holiday Book for the Young " and the "Young Student's Holiday Book
Sivu 175 - Tread down whole ranks, and crush out heroes' souls. Dash'd from their hoofs while o'er the dead they fly, Black, bloody drops the smoking chariot dye : The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore ; And thick the groaning axles dropp'd with gore. High o'er the scene of death Achilles stood, All grim with dust, all horrible in blood : Yet still insatiate, still with rage on flame ; Such is the lust of never-dying fame ! BOOK XXI.

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