The Iliad of Homer: From the Text of Wolf. With English NotesHilliard, Gray, and Company, 1833 - 478 pages |
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Page 459 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page xi - And 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 r.oar ; This way and that the boiling deeps are toss'd ; Such various passions urged the troubled host.
Page iv - No modern sculptor, according to the opinions of the best judges, has imbibed more thoroughly the spirit of grace and beauty which belongs preeminently to ancient art. His mind may be said to have been cast in a Grecian mould ; he had the same intuitive perception of the beautiful, the same love of simplicity, the same power, which belonged to that intellectual people, of embodying in perfect forms the ideal creations of genius. He spent seven years in studying the remains of antiquity at Rome ;...
Page xii - ... 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 474 - There also, all the stars which round about As with a radiant frontlet bind the skies, The Pleiads and the Hyads, and the might 605 Of huge Orion, with Him Ursa call'd, Known also by his popular name, the Wain...
Page 474 - Majesty on his own sideboard — the second, of the same material and value, was presented by the King to the Duke of York — a third, of the same metal, was made for Lord Lonsdale, and a fourth for the Duke of Northumberland. Two casts in bronze were made by the proprietors for themselves, and three in plaster were prepared for the Royal Academy, for Sir Thomas Lawrence, and for Flaxman himself.
Page 411 - An zeile 34 des ersten gesanges preist er den schwermütigen tonfall: the melancholy flowing of the verse admirably expresses the condition of the mournful and deserted father: ßij 6'äxicoi> JtdQa ftlva xolvrf-loioßoio d-aXäaai]^.
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 iv - Heyne and 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
Page 473 - Round the border of the shield he first wrought the sea ; in breadth about three fingers — wave follows wave in quiet undulation — he knew that a boisterous ocean would disturb the repose and harmony of the rest of the work. On the central boss he has represented Apollo, or the sun, in his chariot — the horses seem starting forward, and the god bursting out in beauty to give light to the universe around him. The circle of which Apollo is the centre is in diameter little more than a foot, yet...