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" No wonder, such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms! What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen. Yet hence, oh Heav'n! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race. "
The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope - Page 82
by Homerus - 1808
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The Epochs of Painting Characterized: A Sketch of the History of Painting ...

Ralph Nicholson Wornum - Painting - 1847 - 520 pages
...lines from Homer," thus rendered by Pope — " No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms ! What winning graces !...mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen." //. iii. 156-158. Zeuxis exhibited this picture before it was placed in its destination, the temple...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...own'd resistless beauty's power : They cried, "No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms ; What winning graces! what majestic mien! See moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, oh heaven ! convey that fatal face, And from...
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The character of woman, in a lecture

Richard Cobbold - 1848 - 72 pages
...resistless beauty's power. They cried, " No wonder such celestial charms, " For nine long years, have kept the world in arms, " What winning graces ! what majestic...moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen ! " Yet, hence ! O Heavens ! convey that fatal face ! " And from destruction save the Trojan race !" The venerable...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...own'd resistless beauty's power : They cried: "No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms ! What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves ^ggddess, and she looks a jjueen ! Tet he!ice71)hHeavenT=c!>nvey that fatal face, And from destruction...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...resistless beauty's power: They cried, ' No wonder such celestial charms ' For nine long years had set the world in arms; ' What winning graces, what majestic mien ! ' She looks a goddess, and she moves a queen !'" These are the causes which made all the old senators of...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...own'd resistless beauty's power : They cried, No wonder, such celestial charms For uine long years have set the world in arms ; What winning graces !...Yet hence, oh Heaven ! convey that fatal face, And Irom destruction save the Trojan race. 210 The good old Priam welcomed her; and cried, Approach, my...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...resistless heauty's power : They cried, ' No wonder such celestial charms ' For nine long years had set the world in arms ; ' What winning graces, what majestic mien ! ' She looks a goddess, and she moves a queen ! ' " These are the causes which made all the old senators of...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer, Alexander Pope - 1851 - 562 pages
...power : They cried : "No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms 1 What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves...destruction save the Trojan race." 210 The good old Priam welcomed her ; and cried : "Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side. See on the plain thy Grecian...
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Ancient Irish Minstrelsy

William Hamilton Drummond - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...fltrje dc Mira COIKCV. XL III., 158. They cry'd, No wonder such celestial charms, For nine long years have set the world in arms ; What winning graces!...mien! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen! Pope. As the bright eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place, Did never...
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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with Notes, Original & Selected; an ...

Aristotle - Ethics - 1853 - 444 pages
...umaepov ypafïi was an action brought against a person for bribing another. ' See Hom, llud, iii. 158. " What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, О heaven ! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race." Pope's Ыотет,...
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