 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...and the words placed under them adopted in theiv stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus; The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Policies' rage, O goddess, sing, Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian That... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...and the words placed under them adopted in their stead. The beginning of the first book stand thus ; The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelide .' rage, O Goddess, sing. wwth • Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...and the words placed under them adopted in their stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus : The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The item Pelidcs' rage, O Goddess, sing. wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...under them adopted ia their stead. The beginning of the first book stand thus ; The wrath of Pdeus' son, the direful .spring Of all the Grecian woes,...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides' rage, O Goddess, sing. wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fetal spring, Grecian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...under them adopted in their stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus : The wrath of Pcleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The sUra Ptlidcs' rajje, O Goddess, sing. wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...decline : Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes, unnumber'd, keav'nly Goddess sing ; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. In the first couplet the language is distorted by inversions, clogged with superfluities, and clouded... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...the words placed under them adopted in their stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus : X The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain: The stern Pelides' rage, O goddess, sing, wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring', Grecian... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...and the words placed under them adopted in their stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus : The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all...Goddess, sing, That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reig* The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pclides' rage, O Goddess, sing, wrath Vol.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...grave. The verse marches now with a more slow and measured pace, than in either of the two former cases. The wrath of Peleus' son | the direful spring Of all the Grecian v/oca | OjjoddesB ting '. But the grave, solemn cadence becomes still more sensible, when the pause... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...decline : Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heatfnly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. In the first couplet the language is distorted by inversions, clogged with superfluities, and clouded... | |
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The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides... 
