 No wonder, such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms! What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen. Yet hence, oh Heav'n! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race.  The Iliad of Homer - Sivu 133tekijä(t) Homer - 1853 - 664 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Henry Alford - 1871 - 136 sivua
...form of the Spartan Queen, tells us of the elders of the beleagured city, — They cried, No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms. But for the horrors which we now almost hear and see, none can assign cause sufficient for the reason,... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 sivua
...Spartan queen approach'd the tower, In secret own'd resistless beauty's power : They cried, " No wonder 6 such celestial charms For nine long years have set...face, And from destruction save the Trojan race." The good old Priam welcomed her, and cried, " Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side. See... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sivua
...near; Which but proportion'd to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace. POPE. What winning graces, what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. POPE. Beauties, like tyrants, old and friendless grown, Yet hate repose, and dread to be alone ; Worn... | |
 | Catherine Ann White - 1877 - 466 sivua
...Spartan queen approached the tower, In secret owned resistless beauty's power : They cried : No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set...moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, oh, heaven ! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race." Priam receives Helen... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 576 sivua
...dp.(j)\ yvvaiKt iro\vv xpovov a\yfa Aluuis dOavdrriai Beys els Knra ZoIKev. " They cried, No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set...majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a qneen." POPE. Here is not one word said of the particulars of her beauty ; nothing which can in the... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 sivua
...Spartan queen approach'd the tower, In secret own'd resistless beauty's power : They cried: "No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arma 1 What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 sivua
...near; Which but proportion'd to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace. POPE. What winning graces, what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. POPE. Beauties, like tyrants, old and friendless grown, Yet hate repose, and dread to be alone; Worn... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 sivua
...Spartan queen approached the tower, In secret owned resistless beauty's power ; They cried, " No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set...moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, oh heaven ! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race." 275. Agamemnon and... | |
 | Edwin John Brett - 632 sivua
...wonder such celestial charms for nine long years should set a world in arms ; What winning traces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. Through the magic of Homer's verse we are brought face to face, not only with some of the bravest heroes... | |
 | Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga - 1886 - 204 sivua
...Fuligno in our gallery upstairs— should turn a weak man's head. ' No wonder/ you know,— " No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set...mien . She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.' But I must add with Old Priam's councillors, — « Yet hence, oh, Heaven ! convey the fatal face,... | |
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