 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...sixth syllable, the melody becomes grave. The movement of the verse is more solemn and measured. . The wrath of Peleus, son, | the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, [-O goddess, sing. The grave, cadence becomes still more sensible,, when the pause follows the seventh syllable. This... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...arms of Troy.f A mere chronicler, with no license of poetical fancy might well have affirmed that it ' Hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on that fatal shore Devouring dogs and hungry vultures iore.' At p. 147. for ' a phratry contained... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 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 woes, | O goddess sing l The grave cadence becomes still more sensible, when the pause follows the 7th syllable. This kind... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...more slow and measured pace, than in either of the two former cases. Example. The wrath of Peleus's son, || the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, || O goddess, sing ! * 574. But the grave solemn cadence becomes still more sensible, when the pause falls after the seventh... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...(ïirysa, and lastly to Olympus. ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly unburied on the naked shore, Ilevouring dogs and hungry vulture» tore : Since great Achilles and Atrides... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! The wrath which hurled 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 ; Since great Achilles and Atrides... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...in their stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus ; The wrath of Peleus' son, thedireful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing, That...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides'raj?*, O Goddess, sinp. wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
 | Thomas van Loo - 1842 - 282 pages
...diréful spring Ofwoes unnum ber'd , fieav'nly Goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurld' to Pluto 's gloomy reign , The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs , unbury'd on thenaked shore, Dcvouring dogs andhungry vultures tore, Sinee great Achilles and Atrides strove. Such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...and the wort placed under them adopted m their stead. The beginning of the first book stands thus : wots, О Goddess, sing, That wrath which hurl'd in Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1843 - 410 pages
...passages in the notes*. The intelligent * We begin with the first lines of the ' Iliad' : Pope, — The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all...reign ' The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. Von. — Singe den Zorn, o Giittin, des Peleiaden Achilleus, Ihn, der entbrannt den Achaiern unnennbaren... | |
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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... 
