The Thebaid of Statius: Translated Into English Verse, with Notes and Observations, and a Dissertation Upon the Whole by Way of Preface, Volume 2T. Becket, 1773 |
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Adraftus Æneid againſt Amphiaraus Amphion Antigone Argive Argos ariſe Arms Bacchus beneath Blood Book Breaft Breath Capaneus Chief cloſe Compariſon Corfe Courfers Courſe Creon Dæmon Dart Death defcends Dorceus Dymas erft Eteocles ev'ry Eyes facred faid Fame Fate fays Fear feek feems feen fhall fhould Fight firſt flain Flames fome ftand ftern ftill fuch fudden Fury Goddeſs Gods Gore Grecian Grief Groans Hand Heav'n Hero himſelf Hippomedon Hoft hoftile Homer Honours Iliad Javelin Jove juft King Lactantius laft Laius laſt lefs loft Mars Menaceus muſt o'er obferves Paffage Pallas Parthenopeus Phlegra Plain Poet Polynices Pow'rs Praiſe Pray'r purſue Rage refign Reft reſt Rites ſcarce Shade ſhe Sifter Sire Skies Spear ſtands Statius Steeds ſtill ſtood Sword Tears THEBAID Theban Thebes thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro trembling Tydeus Verfe Virgil Warrior Whilft whofe whoſe Wound Wrath wretched Youth δὲ καὶ
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Page 10 - Of his own car, the ruined house that falls And intercepts her lord betwixt the walls; The whole division that to Mars pertains, All trades of death that deal in steel for gains, Were there: the butcher, armourer, and smith, Who forges sharpened fauchions, or the scythe. The scarlet conquest on a tower was placed, With shouts and soldiers' acclamations graced; A pointed sword hung threatening o'er his head, Sustained but by a slender twine of thread.
Page 63 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 268 - Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her. Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
Page 10 - And madness laughing in his ireful mood; And arm'd complaint on theft; and cries of blood. There was the murder'd...
Page 185 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 9 - As threaten'd from the hinge to heave the door ; In through that door a northern light there shone ; 'Twas all it had, for windows there were none.
Page 208 - Soldan su l'elmo orrido e grande serpe che si dilunga e il collo snoda, su le zampe s'inalza e l'ali spande e piega in arco la forcuta coda. Par che tre lingue vibri e che fuor mande livida spuma, e che 'l suo fischio s'oda.
Page 10 - Madness laughing in his ireful mood ; And arm'd Complaint on Theft ; and cries of Blood. There was the murder'd corpse, in covert laid, And violent Death in thousand shapes display'd ; The city to the soldiers...
Page 51 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 11 - The laft triumvirs, and the wars they move, And Anthony, who loft the world for love. Thefe, and a thoufand more, the fane adorn ; Their fates were painted ere the men were born, All copied from the heav'ns, and ruling force Of the red ftar, in his revolving courfe.