 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
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1885 - 566 pages
...the wisest of the reverend throng ; Antonor grave, and sage Ucalegon, Lcan'd on the walls and hask'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." Disraeli, sitting in the corner seat behind the Treasury... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...laughter shakes the skies.1 Line 771. Thick as autumnal leaves or driving sand. Buok it. Line !>70. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoiee, — A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. Suok Hi.... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 452 pages
...at his side ; Lampus and Clytius, long in council try'd ; Panthus, and Hicetaoji once the strong ; And next, the wisest "o*f 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 the... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 460 pages
...Thymoetes at his side ; Lampus and Clytins, long in council tryM; Panthus, and Hicetaon once the strong; And next, the wisest of the reverend throng, Antenor...the walls, and bask'd before the sun. Chiefs who no mure in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 448 pages
...reverend throng, Antenor grave, and sage Ucalegon, Lean'd on the walls, and bask'd before the son. 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. These, when the... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 450 pages
...reverend throng, Antenor grave, and sage Ucalegon, Lean'd on the walls, and bask'd before the son. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, aud narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 464 pages
...Thymoetes at his side ; Lampus and Clytins, long in council try'd ; Panthus, and Hicetaon once the strong; And next, the wisest of the reverend throng, Antenor grave, and sage ITcalegon, I>ean'd on the walls, and bask'd before the sun. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...II. 8L9. Chiefs who no more in bloody tights engage. But, wise through time, and narrative with age, , r. HOMER— Iluul. Bk. III. L. 109. Pope's Irani'. For never, never, wicked man was wise. ». HOMER—... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1896 - 526 pages
...nearer and nearer to the Scaean Gate, to join the reverend throng who Leau'd ou the walls and basked before the sun ; Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise thro' time and narrative with age, In summer days like grasshoppers rejoice. This week, with difficulties... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1898 - 450 pages
...Thymoetes at his side ; Lampus and Clytius, long in council try'd ; Panthus, and Hicetaon once the strong ; And next, the wisest of the reverend throng, Antenor...fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative witli age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. These,... | |
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