 My soul impels me to th' embattled plains: Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories and my own. Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates, (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy!...  Literature, Ancient and Modern, with Specimens - Pagina 61door Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 336 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...while my tongue relates !) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! must hend, And see thy warriors fail, ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white hreast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kis Vot Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my hrothers gasping on the shore, As thine, Andromache... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 592 pagina’s
...and dies. Cowper's Version, book vi. line 164. The interview between Hector and Andromache — Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates ; (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates !) The dav when t.hou, imperial Troy, must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no dire... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1837 - 358 pagina’s
...Homer in allusion to the future destinies of Rome, to which they were so easily adapted : — " Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates : (How my heart...bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end."* Corinth was demolished in the same year aa Carthage ; * Iliad, lib. vi.,.v. 417. E? /.m' ytip rt'it... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1837 - 426 pagina’s
...«v <cor o>/.'i/ji Jiio; i^. .''"'./ Ti. 447—8. t Yet come it will, the day decreed by Fates, HM» my heart trembles, while my tongue relates ! * The...Thou, imperial Troy! must bend And see thy warriors Tall, thy glories end.— Iliad vl. Empire has hitherto rolled westward : when we contemplate the domiws... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1837 - 420 pagina’s
...otfx XXTX tppivtf, xxl XXTK O.;in "Eamxi ?/*«/>, or' «v ITOT oKi)i| l\tof Ipy. Iliad \i. «7-i Yet come it will, the day decreed by Fates, How my heart trembles, while my tonfiue relates ! The day when Thou, imperial Troy! must bend And see thy warriors fall, thy glories... | |
 | Davies Gilbert - 1838 - 490 pagina’s
...iXiabos, z. 440. Tqvfr avre irpoaeeiire fieyas KopvOain\os 'Eicrup. Iliad, Book the 6th, 1. 570. Yet come it will, the day decreed by Fates, — How my...death, the ruin of my kind, Not Priam's hoary hairs defil'd with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore ; As thine, Andromache ! This parish measures... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...plains ; Let me be foremost to defeud the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. " Yet them to bo his admirers, nor promised ill return to...sign he was of their acquaintance ; K Л ml sec thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no dire presage so wounds my mind, My mother's... | |
 | George Crabb - 1841 - 556 pagina’s
...mny fall or drop from a h«ixbt, it may sink down to the earth, it may tumble b* accident; Yet come U will, the day decreed by fates (How my heart trembles,...tongue relates !) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! muet bend, 4nd see thy .warriours fall and glories end. — POPE. The wounded bird, ere yet ehe breathed... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pagina’s
...subject drops: a person sinks into poverty or in the estimation of the world. •••••• Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates, ; ( How my...trembles , while my tongue relates ! ) The day when thon, imperial Trey! must Ьвш!, •.•• . ,. And see thy warriors fall and glories end. • ,.¡... | |
 | Jeremiah Donovan - 1842 - 704 pagina’s
...xora' tppivx, xai xardf SM/JIOV "EffssrsK >jjAap, fff W nor oXcav>) 'Hwg «j?ij Iliad VI. 447. '•Yet come it will, the day decreed by Fates, How my heart...bend And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end." We live to see his melancholy foreboding more than realized: the mighty and magnificent empire of the... | |
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