| Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...strife. 970 Yet slill the victor's due Tydides gains. With him the sword and stndded belt remains. Then hurl'd the hero thundering on the ground A mass...Iron (an enormous round), •/ + Whose weight and siae the circling Greeks admire. Rnde from the furnace, and but shap'd by fire. This mighty quoit Action... | |
| Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...strife. 970 Yet still the victor's due fydides gaius, With him the sword and stndded helt remaius. Then hurl'd the hero thundering on the ground A mass of iron (an enormous round), 974 Whose weight and size the circling Greeks admire, Rnde from the furnace, and hut shap'd hy fire.... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...Homer, the weight of the discus was an object or <ome importance : " Then hurl'd the hero, tlnmd'ring on the ground A mass of iron, (an enormous round)...circling Greeks admire, Rude from the furnace, and but shap'd hy fire. This mighty quoit Aerion wont to rear, And from his whirling arm dismiss in air : The... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...the strife: Yet still the victor's due Tydides gains, With him the sword and studded belt remains. Then hurl'd the hero thundering on the ground A mass...weight and size the circling Greeks admire, Rude from a furnace, and but shap'd by fire. This mighty quoit Action wont to rear, And from his whirling arm... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 758 pages
...the strife ; Yet still the victor's due Tydides gains, With him the sword and studded helt remains. Then hurl'd the hero thundering on the ground A mass...Whose weight and size the circling Greeks admire, Hude from a furnace, and hut shup'd hy lire. This mighty quoit Action wont to rear, And from his whirling... | |
| sir Christopher Hawkins (bart.) - 1811 - 120 pages
...The poet, in describing the funeral games instituted by Achilles on the death of Patroclus, says— " Then hurl'd the hero, thundering on the ground, "...Whose weight and size the circling Greeks admire; " Made from the furnace, and but shap'd by fire." " Let him whose might can hurl this bowl, arise;... | |
| 1813 - 424 pages
...the strife. Yet still the victor's due Tydides gains, With him the sword and studded belt remains. Then hurl'd the hero, thundering on the ground, A...circling Greeks admire, Rude from the furnace, and but shap'd by fire. This mighty quoit Action wont to rear, And from his whirling arm dismiss in air : The... | |
| 1813 - 374 pages
...Yet still the victor's due Tydides gains, With him the sword and studded belt remains. Then burl'd the hero, thundering on the ground, A mass of iron...Whose weight and size the circling Greeks admire, Rode from the furnace, and but shap'd by fire. This mighty quoit Action wont to rear, And from his... | |
| William Nicholson - 1819 - 394 pages
...Homer, the weight of the discus was an object of aome importance: "Then hurl'd the hero, thund'ring on A mass of iron, (an enormous round,) Whose weight and size the circliag the ground, Greeks admire, Bude from the furnace, and but shap'd by fire, This mighty quoit... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1822 - 344 pages
...the strife. Yet still the victor's due Tydides gains, With him the sword and studded belt remains. Then hurl'd the hero, thundering on the ground, A...circling Greeks admire, Rude from the furnace, and but shap'd by fire. This mighty quoit Action wont to rear, And from his whirling arm dismiss in air: The... | |
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