 Achilles' 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 untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures...  The Quarterly Review - 第 305 頁由 編輯 - 1915完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 頁
...The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline ? Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. In the... | |
 | 1915 - 632 頁
...first two lines of the ' Iliad ' : •; , Ota, FIr|Xij aSetu 'Ax'Xflo? $ /ivpi 'Actuate a\yi tOtlKev. Their simplicity is obvious, and one can imagine with...Peleus-begotten, O Song-queen, sing, Fell wrath, that dealt the Achteans woes past numbering.' But in fact Homer's lines are always very hard to copy. Virgil knew... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1830 - 262 頁
...Muse is invoked to sing — the destructive resentment of Achilles : — aitie, &sa, OvjAijiaSeco ' Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly Goddess sing — Pope. The Will of Jupiter may have been involved in, and accomplished by, the existence and effects... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - 1830 - 124 頁
...some superior beauty; but it is seldom of advantage to invert the style, except in poetry. EXAMPLES "Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing." Natural Order. Heavenly goddess ! sing the wrath of Achilles, the direful spring of unnumbered woes... | |
 | Russell Streeter - 1833 - 208 頁
...'Moralists have defined anger and wrath to be, a desire of revenge for some injury offered.' — STEELE ' Achilles' wrath to Greece, the direful spring . Of woes unnumbered, heavenly Goddess sing-.' — POPE.' I hope now to be understood by all. I mean that the Father of lights is not and cannot be... | |
 | 1837 - 598 頁
...cut down from ships of the line into frigates, by striking out the two saidsyllabled words, as— ' Achilles' wrath to Greece, the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing— That wrath which sent to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs in battle slain, Whose bones,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 頁
...and next in crime, Long after known in Palestine, and named Beelzebub. ADDRESS TO THE MUSE.— HOMER. Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! The wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 頁
...cut down from ships of the line into frigates, by striking out the said two-syllabled words, as — * Achilles' wrath to Greece, the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing, That wrath which sent to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs in battle slain, Whose bones... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 頁
...cut down from ships of the line into frigates, by striking out the said two-syllabled words, as — ' Achilles' wrath to Greece, the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing. That wrath which sent to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs in battle slain, Whose bones... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - 1839 - 142 頁
...superior beauty : but it is seldom of advantage to invert the style, except in poetry. , Examples. " Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess,, sing." JVfrfuroJ order. " Heavenly goddess, sing the wrath of Achilles, the direful spring of unnumbered woes... | |
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