The Iliad of Homer Rendered Into English Blank Verse, Zväzok 1Murray, 1864 |
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Acamas Achilles address'd ægis-bearing Jove Agamemnon Ajax amid answer'd Antilochus armour arms Asius Atreus Atrides battle beneath beside blue-ey'd bold bore brass-clad brave breast call'd camp Capaneus chariot chief comrades counsel dark-ribb'd ships death dwelt Epeians Eurypylus ev'n ev'ry fair fair-hair'd fell fierce fight gates Gerenian Nestor giv'n glancing helm glitt'ring Goddess godlike Gods Grecian Greece Greeks hand haste hath Heav'n heav'nly Hector honour horses host hurl'd Idomeneus Ilium's immortal Jove Juno King lofty long-hair'd Greeks loud Lycians Mars Menoetius mighty monarch Agamemnon mov'd Neleus noble o'er Olympus Pallas Paris pass'd Patroclus Peleus plac'd plain pond'rous pour'd pow'r pray'r Priam's Pylos ranks reach'd rush'd sage Sarpedon Saturn's shield sire slain slew sons of Greece soul spear spoke steeds Sthenelus stood struck Telamon tent Teucer thee thine thou Thracian Tlepolemus tow'rs Trojans Troy turn'd Tydeus Tydides Ulysses valiant Diomed wall warlike Meneläus warriors words wound wrath
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Strana 129 - As when, descending from the mountain's brow, Two wintry torrents, from their copious source Pour downward to the narrow pass, where meet Their mingled waters in some deep ravine, Their weight of flood ; on the far mountain's side...
Strana 112 - ... which himself, In ambush lurking, through the breast had shot, True to his aim, as from behind a crag He came in sight ; prone on the rock he fell ; With horns of sixteen palms his head was crown'd ; 125 These deftly wrought a skilful workman's hand, And polish'd smooth, and tipp'd the ends with gold.
Strana 113 - The iron head ; then, when the mighty bow Was to a circle strained, sharp rang the horn, And loud the sinew twanged, as toward the crowd With deadly speed the eager arrow sprang — it struck Just where the golden clasps the belt restrained. And where the breastplate, doubled, checked its force On the close-fitting belt the arrow struck ; Right through the belt of curious workmanship It drove, and through the breastplate richly wrought, And through the coat of mail he wore beneath, His inmost guard,...
Strana 9 - They never did me wrong ; they never drove My cattle, or my horses; never sought In Phthia's fertile, life-sustaining fields To waste the crops ; for wide between us lay The shadowy mountains and the roaring sea. 185 With thee, O void of shame ! with thee we sail'd, For Menelaus and for thee, ingrate, Glory and fame on Trojan crests to win.
Strana 153 - The goddess shrieked aloud, and dropped her son; But in his arms Apollo bore him off In a thick cloud enveloped, lest some Greek Might pierce his breast, and rob him of his life. Loud shouted brave Tydides, as she fled : ' Daughter of Jove, from battle-fields retire ; Enough for thee weak women to delude; If war thou seek'st, the lesson thou shalt learn Shall cause thee shudder but to hear it named.
Strana 206 - To whom great Hector of the glancing helm : " Think not, dear wife, that by such thoughts as these My heart has ne'er been wrung ; but I should blush To face the men and long-rob'd dames of Troy, If, like a coward, I could shun the fight.
Strana 128 - With whit'ning crests ; anon with thund'ring roar 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...
Strana 208 - Hector stretch'd his arms To take his child; but back the infant shrank, Crying, and sought his nurse's shelt'ring breast, 545 208 HOMER'S ILIAD.
Strana 112 - At once the sinew and the notch he drew ; The sinew to his breast, and to the bow The iron head ; then, when the mighty bow Was to a circle strained, sharp rang the horn, And loud the sinew twanged, as toward the crowd With deadly speed the eager arrow sprang...
Strana 208 - Immortals all address'd his pray'r : " Grant, Jove, and all ye Gods, that this my son May be, as I, the foremost man of Troy, For valour fam'd, his country's guardian King ; That men may say, ' This youth surpasses far His father...