...First read the full text, as in the original, and then read with the words in brackets:, omitted: — Achilles' wrath, to Greece the [direful] spring Of...[naked] shore, Devouring dogs and [hungry] vultures tore — Now turn from the Iliad to the Rape of the Lock : — . The [inferior] priestess at her altar's...

...prey. Thus, eg that commonness of the grave, into which fall, not merely the poor and friendless, but " The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose...naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; " is painted in connection with an universality of brotherhood which brings all men together in one...

...Him, thus in glittering arms arrayed, The camp in wonder and delight surveyed. CADENCE AND MELODY. 77 Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly Goddess sing. POPE'S HOMER. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, Bode the six-hundred. TENNYSON. Note...

...poetry may also be mentioned as an example : " Of man's first disobedience . . . sing, heavenly muse." "Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing." Religious hymns exhibit this very frequently, as — " Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not...

...fields of his imagination a pure rivulet from famed Helicon. James Confucius loquitur: " I beseech not ' Achilles wrath to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing,' nor sing I of angels, death, and the shades of the departed, like Dante ; but the worthy deeds of Ike...

...easier to believe in one than in twenty Homers."—Talfourd. A^QUMENT OF THE ILIAD. (Tiy 1footer.) Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes...unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs, unburied on...

...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 reiga The souls of mighty chiefs in battle slain, Whose bones unburied on the...

...Pelidest rage, JO Goddess, sing, | Of all the I woes of Greece \ the fatal spring./ v Grecian woes / That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign\ The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. / That strewed with (warriors') dead the Phrygian plain,^ I heroes / And / peopled the dark hell with...

...saying, "that amid all the crimes and passions of men the counsel of Zeus was being accomplished." " ennobled the " children that are of their sort " for evermore. We have no means unnumbered slain, Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore. Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore,...

...to Chrysa, and lastly to Olympus. ACHILLES* wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing! That wrath which hurled to...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; * The following argument of the Iliad, corrected in a few particulars, ts translated from Hitaube....