| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 sider
...the first book stands thus ; 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' rage, O Goddess, sing, . wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 sider
...decline : Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heatfnly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. In the first couplet the language is distorted by inversions, clogged with superfluities, and clouded... | |
| John Potter - 1818 - 616 sider
...entrance of the first Iliad, where he thus speaks of AchilWs anger : s V Ifil , eturitf Qivtllfl Tl fill' That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The...naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore. ran. But this was not so common as in more early ages ; for we find Achilles himself celebrating the... | |
| John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 618 sider
...i'li *£'1*$tl *H£*wv, «t-Tw 3' •&*{*« Tiir^i xvnrnt, Qli*i<Hgt n vette That wrath which burl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain Whose limbs unburicd on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vulture, tore. rorz. But this was not so common... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 sider
...the dark hell -with heroes slain ; fiJl'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely Whose limbs, utiburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore, Since great dchUles and Strides strove: Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove Whose limbs, unburied... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 sider
...the first book stands thus ; 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' rage, O Goddess, sing', wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 sider
...the first book stands thus ; 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' rage, O Goddess, sing> wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 sider
...warriors dead the Phrygian plain, And peopled the dark shades with heroes slain. It now stands thus : That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain — and was evidently altered to preserve the sense of the word. fourth my latter translations* and... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 sider
...warriors dead the Phrygian plain, And peopled the dark shades with heroes slain. It now stands thus : That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain — and was evidently altered to preserve the sense of the word. fourth my latter translations* and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 sider
...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 slain. • In the first couplet the language is distorted by inversions, clogged with superfluities, and clouded... | |
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