The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... follow , from that unfair comparison , and from his inferiority to Homer , that Apollonius should rank with the poets of mediocrity ? -Suppose the same question should be asked , with respect to Sophocles , to Euripides , to Virgil ? I ...
... follow , from that unfair comparison , and from his inferiority to Homer , that Apollonius should rank with the poets of mediocrity ? -Suppose the same question should be asked , with respect to Sophocles , to Euripides , to Virgil ? I ...
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... follow rather the spirit than the letter of the original . But I hope I have not been unfaithful to the general sense , to the substance of what the Greek text meant to say . Shall I own it ? I some- times had the vanity of aiming at ...
... follow rather the spirit than the letter of the original . But I hope I have not been unfaithful to the general sense , to the substance of what the Greek text meant to say . Shall I own it ? I some- times had the vanity of aiming at ...
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... follow Jason , notwithstanding the enmity of his father to the young hero . This is a most engaging and interesting picture . Valerius Flaccus deprives Acastus of the praise of gene- rosity and courage , and degrades the character of ...
... follow Jason , notwithstanding the enmity of his father to the young hero . This is a most engaging and interesting picture . Valerius Flaccus deprives Acastus of the praise of gene- rosity and courage , and degrades the character of ...
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... follows a course of his own , and has not much in common with Apollonius or Va- lerius Flaccus . Had I not already trespassed so much on the patience of the reader , in this Pre- face , I should be tempted to give an analysis of the ...
... follows a course of his own , and has not much in common with Apollonius or Va- lerius Flaccus . Had I not already trespassed so much on the patience of the reader , in this Pre- face , I should be tempted to give an analysis of the ...
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... follow'd , but their drooping sire , The hoary Aleus , checks the fond desire . In early manhood beauteously severe , Clad in the spoils of the Mænalian " 1 bear , Intrepid boy , Ancæus joins the band , And shakes a battleaxe with ...
... follow'd , but their drooping sire , The hoary Aleus , checks the fond desire . In early manhood beauteously severe , Clad in the spoils of the Mænalian " 1 bear , Intrepid boy , Ancæus joins the band , And shakes a battleaxe with ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Acastus Æneid Alcides altar Amazons Amycus Ancæus ancient Apollo Apollonius Rhodius Argo Argonauts band beauty Bebrycians billows bore Boreas breast called Callimachus chief Cizycus Colchian Colchos course crowd Curetes Cybele daughter deep deities divine Euxine sea fable fair fame fate father fear fill'd fleece goddess gods Greek scholiast grief hand Harpies haste Hercules hero Herodotus Hesiod Homer Hylas Idmon imitated this passage island isle Jason Jove Jupiter labours land Lemnian Mariandyni mighty Mopsus mortal mountain Mysian Neleus Neptune nymph o'er oars original Orpheus pass'd Pelasgi Pelias Phineus Phoebus Phrygia Phryxus pious plain poem poet prophet race reader region rites river rocks roll'd sacred sails says the Greek Scho scholiast seems ship shore signifies simile sire sons speaks Symplegades Telamon Thermodon Thessaly Thrace Thracian throng tion Tiphys toil train translation tribes Valerius Flaccus vessel Virgil voyage waves winds word writers youth
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Página 256 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep.
Página 261 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Página 261 - ... continue in scarceness. 7 O God, when thou wentest forth before the people : when thou wentest through the wilderness, 8 The earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of God : even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God, who is the God of Israel.
Página 60 - THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear...
Página 278 - Besmear'd with smoke that nigh his eye-sight blent, With rugged beard and hoary shaggy heare, The which he never wont to comb, or comely shear. 35...
Página 115 - ... from hence your parting course you steer, Within a strait Cyanea's rocks appear. Arduous the task through these your way to keep, Unstay'd, unrooted, wand'ring in the deep. Ofttimes they rush, with front to front opposed, And clashing dreadful, both in one are closed.
Página 245 - What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" 15And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Página 247 - Noah with a leaf of olive, nml brought the first tidings that the waters of the deep were assuaged, was held in many nations as particularly sacred: it was looked upon as a peculiar messenger of the Deity, an emblem of peace and good fortune. Among mariners it was thought to...
Página 246 - But we must remember that Argo passed, in her return, through Scylla and Charybdis, and that Apollonius, as well as Homer, has mentioned these rocks hy the name ur>.ayx7al, erratic, which is sup^ posed to be more strictly applicable to the Symplegades.
Página 247 - Among mariners it was thought to be particularly auspicious; who as th<y sailed, used to let a dove fly from their ships, to judge of the success of their voyage. The most favourable season for setting sail was at the Heliacal rising of the seven stars, near the head of Taurus ; and they are, in consequence of it, called Pleiades. It was at their appearance that the Argonauts sat out upon their expedition. *Af*o; J