 | Creation - 1869 - 606 pages
...the entangling fetters that bind the mountains to their places are forcibly sundered, and then — " Precipitate the pond'rous mass descends. From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock, the crackling mount resounds ; Still gathering force, it smokes, and urged amain, Whirls,... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...rays, ineir brandish d lances at each motion blaze. Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends : From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | F. Taverner Graham - Elocution - 1874 - 224 pages
...way; Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy. [As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...pond'rous mass descends; From steep to steep the rolling rum bounds, At every shock the crackling wood resounds ! Still gathering force, it smokes; and urged... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 pages
...Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy. ' 90 As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends ; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Friedrich August Nösselt - 1885 - 620 pages
...Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead Battle at the Greek Entrenchments. 405 A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which...the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the ponderous mass descends : From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...their way: Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...descends: From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds; At every shock the crackling wood resounds; Still gath'ring force, it smokes; and, urged amain, Whirls,... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1909 - 630 pages
...: Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy 190 As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends : From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; 1 95 At every shock the crackling... | |
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As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the... 
