141 I may, once for all, remark that Homer is most
anatomically
correct
as to the parts of the body in which a wound would be immediately
mortal.
as to the parts of the body in which a wound would be immediately
mortal.
Iliad - Pope
742.
135 --_Sthenelus,_ a son of Capaneus, one of the Epigoni. He was one of
the suitors of Helen, and is said to have been one of those who
entered Troy inside the wooden horse.
136 --_Forwarn'd the horrors. _ The same portent has already been
mentioned. To this day, modern nations are not wholly free from this
superstition.
137 --_Sevenfold city,_ Boeotian Thebes, which had seven gates.
138 --_As when the winds. _
"Thus, when a black-brow'd gust begins to rise,
White foam at first on the curl'd ocean fries;
Then roars the main, the billows mount the skies,
Till, by the fury of the storm full blown,
The muddy billow o'er the clouds is thrown. "
Dryden's Virgil, vii. 736.
139 "Stood
Like Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved;
His stature reach'd the sky. "
--"Paradise Lost," iv. 986.
140 The Abantes seem to have been of Thracian origin.
141 I may, once for all, remark that Homer is most anatomically correct
as to the parts of the body in which a wound would be immediately
mortal.
142 --_? nus,_ a fountain almost proverbial for its coldness.
143 Compare Tasso, Gier. Lib. , xx. 7:
"Nuovo favor del cielo in lui niluce
E 'l fa grande, et angusto oltre il costume.
Gl' empie d' honor la faccia, e vi riduce
Di giovinezza il bel purpureo lume. "
144 "Or deluges, descending on the plains,
Sweep o'er the yellow year, destroy the pains
Of lab'ring oxen, and the peasant's gains;
Uproot the forest oaks, and bear away
Flocks, folds, and trees, an undistinguish'd prey. "
Dryden's Virgil ii. 408.
145 --_From mortal mists. _
"But to nobler sights
Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed. "
"Paradise Lost," xi. 411.
146 --_The race of those.
135 --_Sthenelus,_ a son of Capaneus, one of the Epigoni. He was one of
the suitors of Helen, and is said to have been one of those who
entered Troy inside the wooden horse.
136 --_Forwarn'd the horrors. _ The same portent has already been
mentioned. To this day, modern nations are not wholly free from this
superstition.
137 --_Sevenfold city,_ Boeotian Thebes, which had seven gates.
138 --_As when the winds. _
"Thus, when a black-brow'd gust begins to rise,
White foam at first on the curl'd ocean fries;
Then roars the main, the billows mount the skies,
Till, by the fury of the storm full blown,
The muddy billow o'er the clouds is thrown. "
Dryden's Virgil, vii. 736.
139 "Stood
Like Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved;
His stature reach'd the sky. "
--"Paradise Lost," iv. 986.
140 The Abantes seem to have been of Thracian origin.
141 I may, once for all, remark that Homer is most anatomically correct
as to the parts of the body in which a wound would be immediately
mortal.
142 --_? nus,_ a fountain almost proverbial for its coldness.
143 Compare Tasso, Gier. Lib. , xx. 7:
"Nuovo favor del cielo in lui niluce
E 'l fa grande, et angusto oltre il costume.
Gl' empie d' honor la faccia, e vi riduce
Di giovinezza il bel purpureo lume. "
144 "Or deluges, descending on the plains,
Sweep o'er the yellow year, destroy the pains
Of lab'ring oxen, and the peasant's gains;
Uproot the forest oaks, and bear away
Flocks, folds, and trees, an undistinguish'd prey. "
Dryden's Virgil ii. 408.
145 --_From mortal mists. _
"But to nobler sights
Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed. "
"Paradise Lost," xi. 411.
146 --_The race of those.
