Homērou IliasHilliard, Gray, and Company, 1833 - 476 pages |
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Page ix - ... use in the manifold business of life. The numerous secondary meanings which the ever-increasing intricacy of the social relations, and the new views and abstract ideas of science, impart to words, sometimes to the concealment of their original senses, have not yet confused or effaced the impressions. Such was the condition of our own noble language in the time of Elizabeth. The words of Shakspeare and Massinger have a truth to nature, a clearness and graphic power, a simplicity, force, and freshness,...
Page 445 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and it was dark under his feet. 10 He rode upon the cherubims, and did fly : he came flying upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place : his pavilion round about him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover him.
Page 463 - Poseidon shook the boundless earth and the lofty summits of the mountains. The roots and all the summits of many-rilled Ida were shaken, and the city of the Trojans and the ships of the Greeks.
Page xiv - ... with a precision of outline, from which it is impossible to depart. The Thracian mountains must form the back ground, thence the tempest is to burst on the .íEgean sea, which has its proper stormy coloring ; while the Ionian shore covered with sea-wreck, by a succession of waves breaking on its beach, will make the foreground, where the poet views, admires, and describes the whole.
Page iv - Trollope. The notes, it will be perceived, are designed partly to explain the most difficult phrases, allusions, and constructions, and partly to call the attention of the reader to the intrinsic poetical beauties of the Iliad. My wish has been to lead the young student to read the poem, not in the spirit of a school-boy conning a dull lesson to be " construed " and
Page iv - My wish has been to lead the young student to read the poem, not in the spirit of a school-boy conning a dull lesson to be " construed " and " parsed," and forgotten when the hour of recitation is at an end, but in the delightful consciousness that he is employing his mind upon one of the noblest monuments of the genius of man.
Page xiii - A double tempest of the west and north Swells o'er the sea, from Thracia's frozen shore, Heaps waves on waves, and bids the ^Egean r.oar ; This way and that the boiling deeps are toss'd ; Such various passions urged the troubled host.
Page vi - Iliad, there is a unity of plan, a harmony of parts, a consistency among the different situations of the same character, which mark it as the production of one mind ; but of a mind as versatile as the forms of nature, the aspects of life, and the combinations of powers, propensities and passions in man are various.
Page xiii - Heaven-bred horror, on the Grecian part, Sat on each face, and sadden'd every heart. As from its cloudy dungeon issuing forth, A double tempest of the west and north Swells o'er the sea, from Thracia's frozen shore, Heaps waves on waves, and bids the' .Egean roar; This way and that the boiling deeps are tost : Such various passions urg'd the troubled host.
Page v - ... goddesses and heroes. The whole compass of ancient poetry was, in fact, reshaped in the marble of the Grecian sculptors, and delineated anew on the canvas of the painters. The noble figures on the Parthenon, chiselled under the eye, if not by the hand, of Phidias, the broken remains of which are even now the best teachers of the highest style in the art, sprang into being from the same kind of inspiration as that which spoke in the rhapsodies of Homer, and the Tragedies of .¿Eschylus and Sophocles.