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Page 150
... coursers , and his chariot took , The stedfast firmament beneath them shook : Rapt by the etherial steeds , the chariot roll'd , Brass were their hoofs , their curling manes of gold : Of Heav'n's undrossy gold the god's array ...
... coursers , and his chariot took , The stedfast firmament beneath them shook : Rapt by the etherial steeds , the chariot roll'd , Brass were their hoofs , their curling manes of gold : Of Heav'n's undrossy gold the god's array ...
Page 151
grand - the firmament is made to tremble under the coursers ' feet ; but the god himself seems subordinate : he is indeed repre- sented as " shining on his throne ; " but this part of the descrip- tion is so general , and the other so ...
grand - the firmament is made to tremble under the coursers ' feet ; but the god himself seems subordinate : he is indeed repre- sented as " shining on his throne ; " but this part of the descrip- tion is so general , and the other so ...
Page 154
... coursers , of immortal strain , Exempt from pain , and deathless now in vain , Did we your race on mortal man bestow , Only , alas ! to share in mortal wo ? For ah ! what is there of inferior birth , That breathes or creeps upon the ...
... coursers , of immortal strain , Exempt from pain , and deathless now in vain , Did we your race on mortal man bestow , Only , alas ! to share in mortal wo ? For ah ! what is there of inferior birth , That breathes or creeps upon the ...
Page 157
... coursers fly , The wondering waters leave his axle dry . ” — In this resplendent passage we have collected in a mass the sublimity and grandeur of Homer's imagination . The island of Egæ sinking beneath incumbent Divinity , the bold ...
... coursers fly , The wondering waters leave his axle dry . ” — In this resplendent passage we have collected in a mass the sublimity and grandeur of Homer's imagination . The island of Egæ sinking beneath incumbent Divinity , the bold ...
Page 315
... coursers , however , is greatly distorted and caricatured by foreign prejudice . Here his evil genius enticed him into a hackney coach , for the purpose of returning with more , celerity and less fatigue , to his lodgings . But this ill ...
... coursers , however , is greatly distorted and caricatured by foreign prejudice . Here his evil genius enticed him into a hackney coach , for the purpose of returning with more , celerity and less fatigue , to his lodgings . But this ill ...
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