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Page 144
... up , or the courage with which it will yet be defended , derives a brighter lustre from its difficulties , and new glories in the hour of trial . " No. CXC . VOL . XXXI . ACHILLES . ONE 144 [ Jan. Reply to Lord Brougham's Speech .
... up , or the courage with which it will yet be defended , derives a brighter lustre from its difficulties , and new glories in the hour of trial . " No. CXC . VOL . XXXI . ACHILLES . ONE 144 [ Jan. Reply to Lord Brougham's Speech .
Page 145
... ACHILLES . ONE man has put to rout a whole army , and filled a city with fugitives —and is not that Bombast ? No ; it is sublimity - for that one man is Achilles - that city is Troy ; and the poet of the Fear and Flight is Homer . Not ...
... ACHILLES . ONE man has put to rout a whole army , and filled a city with fugitives —and is not that Bombast ? No ; it is sublimity - for that one man is Achilles - that city is Troy ; and the poet of the Fear and Flight is Homer . Not ...
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... Achilles so parts with the God . When aged Priam spied The great Greek come , sphered round with beams , and showing as if the star , Surnamed Orion's Hound , that springs in autumn , and sends far His radiance through a world of stars ...
... Achilles so parts with the God . When aged Priam spied The great Greek come , sphered round with beams , and showing as if the star , Surnamed Orion's Hound , that springs in autumn , and sends far His radiance through a world of stars ...
Page 147
For Achilles had seen him , as soon as Apollo disappeared , the Trojan's guardian - god - and on the instant , like car - whirling steed victorious near the goal , had shot to the slaugh ter . Achilles was like the star Orion . How ...
For Achilles had seen him , as soon as Apollo disappeared , the Trojan's guardian - god - and on the instant , like car - whirling steed victorious near the goal , had shot to the slaugh ter . Achilles was like the star Orion . How ...
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... Achilles , Equal to the helm - shaking warrior Mars , Over his right shoulder brandishing the Pelian spear Terrible and around him shone the brass like to the flash Of blazing fire , or of the rising sun . Hector , therefore , when he ...
... Achilles , Equal to the helm - shaking warrior Mars , Over his right shoulder brandishing the Pelian spear Terrible and around him shone the brass like to the flash Of blazing fire , or of the rising sun . Hector , therefore , when he ...
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