 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
 | Homer - 1849 - 582 pagina’s
...guard my father's glories, andtJjny_ow:fr. ic?i*-« Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates : 570 (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates !)...thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no dire p_resage so wounds my mind, O-//VMy mother's death, the ruin of my kind, Not Priam's hoary hairs defiled... | |
 | Moses Margoliouth - 1850 - 470 pagina’s
...allusion to the future destinies of Rome, which the great Greek poet sang respecting ancient Troy: " Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates; (How my heart...bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end." * Immediately after the total destruction of Carthage, the Romans ordered a medal to be struck, having... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pagina’s
...ground, Attaint the lustre of my former name, Should Hector basely quit the field of fame? \ et cnme it will, the day decreed by fates ; How my heart trembles...my tongue relates The day when thou, imperial Troy, umst bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no dire presage so wounds my mind, My... | |
 | S.G Goodrich - 1851 - 664 pagina’s
...commiseration for the melancholy fate of his country's rival, he repeated these lines of Homer: — " Yet come it will: the day decreed by fates — How my...must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end ! " Polybius, the historian, interrogated him as to his meaning. He replied, that his thoughts were... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pagina’s
...dies. Coirper's Version, book vi. line 1(54. The interview between Hector and Andromache — Yet cqme it will, the day decreed by fates; (How my heart trembles...Thou, imperial Troy, must bend, And see thy warriors full, thy glories end. And yet no dire presage so wounds my mind, My mother's death, the ruin of mv... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1844 - 396 pagina’s
...-will, the day decreed by fate» ; (How my heart trembles, while my tongue relates I) The day when thon, imperial Troy, must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end." The second incident is still more tragic : As'drubal, die first mover of the war, had fled with the... | |
 | Homer - 1853 - 364 pagina’s
...throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. "Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! 570 (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates !)...imperial Troy ! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glorious end. And yet no dire presage so wounds my mind, My mother's death, the ruin of my kind, Not... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pagina’s
...sister. HECTOR ON PARTING WITH ANDROMACHE. Yet come it will ! the day decreed by fates, (How my tongue trembles, while my tongue relates) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! — must bend ; Must see thy warriors fall ; thy glories end, And yet, no dire presage so wounds my mind, My mother's... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 598 pagina’s
...commiseration for the melancholy fate of his country's rival, he repeated these lines of Homer : — " Yet come it will : the day decreed by fates — How my...thou, imperial Troy, must bend, And see thy warriors lall, thy glories end ! " Polybius, the historian, interrogated him as to his meaning. He replied,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1854 - 546 pagina’s
...may sink down to the earth, it may tumble -i' accident ; Yet come it will, the day decreed by fate« (How my heart trembles, while my tongue relates !) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! must bend, Лпа see thy warriours/a/i and glories end. — POPK. The wounded bird, ere yet she breathed her... | |
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