 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...The close-compacted legions urged their way : Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; ******* 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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...Troy (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends) A rock's round fragment tlies with fury borne, Precipitate the pond'rous mass descends ; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling wood resounds ; Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain... | |
 | Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...way: Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy. 100 As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which fr»m the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends ; From steep to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 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...from the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate tin; ponderous mass descends ; From steep lo steep the rolling ruin bounds; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Homer, Alexander Pope - 1851 - 562 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 ; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 392 pages
...висcese of Hector, is admirably expressive : — " As from the mountain's craggy forehead tern, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, Which...; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every snock the crackling wood resounds ; Still gathering force, it smokes ; and urg'd nmain, Whirls,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1852 - 522 pages
...: Fierce they drove on, impudent to destroy ; Troy charg'd 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 pbnd'rous mass descends ; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 662 pages
...descriptions in Homer : — 1 As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment lies, with fury borne, Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends, Precipitate the ponderous mass descends ; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds, At every shock the echoing vale,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...way : Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy. , ponderous mass descends : From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1865 - 302 pages
...way: Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Troy charg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent reads) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends : From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every... | |
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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... 
