 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 488 pages
...decline : Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heav'nly Goddess sing; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely shiin. In the first couplet the language is distorted by inversions, clogged with superfluities, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...the first book stands thus: The wrath of Peleus' eon, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, О , The stern Pelides' rage О Goddess, sing, wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1826 - 320 pages
...mose slow and measured pace, than in either of the two former cases. Exomplt. The wrath of Peleus,s son || the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes || O goddess sing I 574. But the gi-ave solemn cadence hecomes still more sensihle, when the pause falls after the seventh... | |
 | Periodicals - 1828
...HOMER S ILIAD. BOOK I. 9 ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess sing! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy...souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles and Atrides... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1830 - 408 pages
...sixième syllabe , le vers prend un ton grave et solennel ; il marche d'un pas plus lent et plus mesuré : The wrath of Peleus' son , | the direful spring Of all the grecian woes , | o Goddess , sing. « Chante , ô Muse , la colère du fils de Pélée , source « cruelle de tous les maux de la Grèce.... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...ancient bards, we find them frequently dwelling on the same important theme. They tell us of, " The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs, untimely slain; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore." They tell us of the descent... | |
 | Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1834 - 524 pages
...celerrimus." " Such was the sov'reign doom, and such the will of Jove." TRIMETER BRACHYCATALECTIC : " The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing." DIMETER : " But come, thou Goddess fair and free, In heav'n yclep'd Euphrosyne." All the foregoing... | |
 | 1835 - 866 pages
...moral action. Thus, we read in Homer's Iliad of a plague affecting the Grecian camp : " Winch hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs...the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures toie." This plague, according to the poet, originated in the refusal, on the part of Achilles, to give... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnnmher'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath Vhich for to the farther shore When once we pass, i Whose limhs unhuried on the naked shore, Devouring dugs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...the word placed under them adopted in their stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus : " amuel wliich hurlvl in Pluto's gloomy reign The aoulsof mighty chiefs untimely slam." The stern Pelrdes*... | |
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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... 
