 Lean'd on the walls and bask'd before the sun: Chiefs, who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer days, like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.  The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope - Page 80by Homerus - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...at his side ; Lampus and Clytius, long in council tried ; Panthus, and Hicetaon, once the strong ; And next, the wisest of the reverend throng, Antenor...engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer days, like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. These, when... | |
 | Catherine Ann White - Classical literature - 1877 - 466 pages
...it shed ; Then onward passed, and sought the Sccean gate Where sate the elders of the Trojan state ; Chiefs, who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, I,ike grasshoppers that in the woods rejoice, Or send from summer bowers their slender voice. These,... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1877 - 290 pages
...understood. Chapman terms their utterance "weak faint sounds": Pope calls them chiefs who narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. And he praises this as a just and natural image. And yet it is not the true one. The TCTTI£ to Greek... | |
 | Homerus - 1877 - 290 pages
...Chapman terms their utterance " weak faint sounds": Pope calls them chiefs who narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. And he praises this as a just and natural image. And yet it is not the true one. The rerrit to Greek... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1878 - 596 pages
...his side ; Lampus and Clytius, long in council tried ; Panthus, and Hicetaon, once the strong ; 195 And next the wisest of the reverend throng, Antenor...narrative with age, 200 In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,7 A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. These, when the Spartan queen approach'd the... | |
 | Helen Mathers - English literature - 1881 - 400 pages
...Thymastes at his side; Lampue and Clythius, long in council tried ; Panthus and Hicetaon, once the strong ; And next, the wisest of the reverend throng, Antenor...sun : Chiefs, Who no more in bloody fights engage, Bat wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer days, like grasshoppers rejoice ; A bloodless... | |
 | Homer - 1884 - 500 pages
...tried ; And next, the wisest of the reverend throng, Panthus, and Hicetaon, once the strong; Ante nor grave, and sage Ucalegon, Lean'd on the walls and bask'd before the sun: But wise through time, and narrative with age, Chiefs, who no more in bloody fights engage, A bloodless... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1885 - 544 pages
...Thymoctes at his side ; Lampus and Clytius, long in council tried ; Panthus and llicctaon, once the strong, And next the wisest of the reverend throng ; Antenor...sun : Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, Hut wise through time and narrative with age, In summer days like grasshoppers rejoice." Disraeli,... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1885 - 554 pages
...Hicetaon, once the strong, And next the wisest of the reverend throng ; Antonor grave, and sage Ucalcgon, Lean'd on the walls and bask'd before the sun : Chiefs...engage, But wise through time and narrative with age, In summer days like grasshoppers rejoice." Disraeli, sitting in the corner seat behind the Treasury... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1885 - 542 pages
...once the strong, And next the wisest of the reverend throng ; Antenor grave, and sago Ucalegon, Leau'd on the walls and bask'd before the sun: Chiefs who...engage, But wise through time and narrative with age, In summer days like grasshoppers rejoice." Disraeli, sitting in the corner seat behind the Treasury... | |
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