 | Ruth Shartel McVoy - 1915 - 316 sider
...Pope's translation of the "Iliad." "Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The sons of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and... | |
 | Georg Friedrich Nicolai - 1918 - 612 sider
...wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurls to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs...the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.1 And in Book II, when Agamemnon advised the soldiers to return home, the warlike Achaians ran... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns - 1919 - 498 sider
...devouring corpses, eg 1 K. xiv. 11, xvi. 4; Ps. Ixviii. 34; Ex. xxii. 30, &c., and cf. Homer, Iliad, L 4 f. 'Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.' to tear. Lit. to drag (as mg.). The word is used here and in xxii. 19 of corpses being dragged along... | |
 | William Baxter Godbey - 1919 - 194 sider
...wrath to Greeks, the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing, That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose bones unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Atrides and... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 560 sider
...wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly Goddess, sing! That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs...and hungry vultures tore: Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove. ballad stanza and the octosyllabic... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews - 1923 - 360 sider
...adjectives that are underlined:11 Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess, sing! That wrath which hurl'd to...naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore. Read this way, they make very good octosyllabics. This fault of padding is not characteristic of most... | |
 | 1923 - 632 sider
...wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs...and hungry vultures tore. Since great Achilles and Atreides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!" There are many competent... | |
 | John Adams Scott - 1925 - 204 sider
...Pope's Iliad are as follows: Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heav'nly goddess, sing! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's...and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove. This is great poetry, but it... | |
 | Lewis Guy Rohrbaugh - 1927 - 312 sider
...wrath, to Greece the direful spring, Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing; That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs...naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore." 6 All persons were not consigned to this gloomy abode. In the Odyssey, Homer speaks of the Elysian... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 sider
...the first book stands thus: The wrath of Peleus' son, the direjul spring Of all the Grecian woes, O k Barrett Harper" Barrett Harper The stern Pelides' rage, 0 Goddess, sing, wrath 2 I have omitted a number of these examples, which... | |
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ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That 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... 
