_
"But like a rock unmov'd, a rock that braves
The raging tempest, and the rising waves--
Propp'd on himself he stands: his solid sides
Wash off the sea-weeds, and the sounding tides.
"But like a rock unmov'd, a rock that braves
The raging tempest, and the rising waves--
Propp'd on himself he stands: his solid sides
Wash off the sea-weeds, and the sounding tides.
Iliad - Pope
700.
238 --_He lies protected,_
"Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run
By angels many and strong, who interpos'd
Defence, while others bore him on their shields
Back to his chariot, where it stood retir'd
From off the files of war; there they him laid,
Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. "
"Paradise Lost," vi. 335, seq.
239 --_The brazen dome. _ See the note on Bk. viii. Page 142.
240 --_For, by the gods! who flies. _ Observe the bold ellipsis of "he
cries," and the transition from the direct to the oblique
construction. So in Milton:--
"Thus at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood,
Both turn'd, and under open sky ador'd
The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven,
Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe,
And starry pole. --Thou also mad'st the night,
Maker omnipotent, and thou the day. "
Milton, "Paradise Lost," Book iv.
241 --_So some tall rock.
_
"But like a rock unmov'd, a rock that braves
The raging tempest, and the rising waves--
Propp'd on himself he stands: his solid sides
Wash off the sea-weeds, and the sounding tides. "
Dryden's Virgil, vii. 809.
242 Protesilaus was the first Greek who fell, slain by Hector, as he
leaped from the vessel to the Trojan shore. He was buried on the
Chersonese, near the city of Plagusa. Hygin Fab. ciii. Tzetz. on
Lycophr. 245, 528. There is a most elegant tribute to his memory in
the Preface to the Heroica of Philostratus.
243 --_His best beloved. _ The following elegant remarks of Thirlwall
(Greece, vol. i, p. 176 seq. ) well illustrate the character of the
friendship subsisting between these two heroes--
"One of the noblest and most amiable sides of the Greek character,
is the readiness with which it lent itself to construct intimate and
durable friendships, and this is a feature no less prominent in the
earliest than in later times.
238 --_He lies protected,_
"Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run
By angels many and strong, who interpos'd
Defence, while others bore him on their shields
Back to his chariot, where it stood retir'd
From off the files of war; there they him laid,
Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. "
"Paradise Lost," vi. 335, seq.
239 --_The brazen dome. _ See the note on Bk. viii. Page 142.
240 --_For, by the gods! who flies. _ Observe the bold ellipsis of "he
cries," and the transition from the direct to the oblique
construction. So in Milton:--
"Thus at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood,
Both turn'd, and under open sky ador'd
The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven,
Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe,
And starry pole. --Thou also mad'st the night,
Maker omnipotent, and thou the day. "
Milton, "Paradise Lost," Book iv.
241 --_So some tall rock.
_
"But like a rock unmov'd, a rock that braves
The raging tempest, and the rising waves--
Propp'd on himself he stands: his solid sides
Wash off the sea-weeds, and the sounding tides. "
Dryden's Virgil, vii. 809.
242 Protesilaus was the first Greek who fell, slain by Hector, as he
leaped from the vessel to the Trojan shore. He was buried on the
Chersonese, near the city of Plagusa. Hygin Fab. ciii. Tzetz. on
Lycophr. 245, 528. There is a most elegant tribute to his memory in
the Preface to the Heroica of Philostratus.
243 --_His best beloved. _ The following elegant remarks of Thirlwall
(Greece, vol. i, p. 176 seq. ) well illustrate the character of the
friendship subsisting between these two heroes--
"One of the noblest and most amiable sides of the Greek character,
is the readiness with which it lent itself to construct intimate and
durable friendships, and this is a feature no less prominent in the
earliest than in later times.
