. Pope's The Iliad of Homer, books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV;. nd against the force of Jove ? Once in your cause I felt his matchless might, 760 Hurld headlong downward from th ethereal height; Tossd all the day in rapid circles round; Nor, till the sun descended, touchd the ground : Breathless I fell, in giddy motion lost; The Sinthians raisd me on the Lemnian coast. 765 He said, and to her hands the goblet heavd,Which, with a smile, the white-armd queen to the rest he filld; and, in his turn,Each to his lips applied the nectard with awkward grace his office plies, 770 And
. Pope's The Iliad of Homer, books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV;. nd against the force of Jove ? Once in your cause I felt his matchless might, 760 Hurld headlong downward from th ethereal height; Tossd all the day in rapid circles round; Nor, till the sun descended, touchd the ground : Breathless I fell, in giddy motion lost; The Sinthians raisd me on the Lemnian coast. 765 He said, and to her hands the goblet heavd,Which, with a smile, the white-armd queen to the rest he filld; and, in his turn,Each to his lips applied the nectard with awkward grace his office plies, 770 And unextinguishd laughter shakes the skies. Thus the blest gods the genial day prolong,In feasts ambrosial, and celestial tund the lyre ; the muses roundWith voice alternate aid the silver sound. 775 Meantime the radiant sun, to mortal sightDescending swift, rolld down the rapid to their starry domes the gods depart,The shining monuments of Vulcans art:Jove on his couch reclind his awful head, 780 And Juno slumberd on the golden y. Flax man and A. S chill. BOOK VI. THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, ANDOF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE. Now heaven forsakes the fight; th immortals yieldTo human force and human skill the field :Dark showers of javelins fly from foes to foes;Now here, now there, the tide of combat flows;While Troys famd streams, that bound the deathfulplain 5 On either side, run purple to the main. Great Ajax first to conquest led the way,Broke the thick ranks, and turnd the doubtful Thracian Acamas his falchion found,And hewd th enormous giant to the ground; to His thundering arm a deadly stroke impressdWhere the black horse-hair nodded oer his crest: 27 28 THE ILIAD. Fixd in his front the brazen weapon lies,And seals in endless shades his swimming eyes. Next Teuthras son distaind the sands with blood, 15Axylus, hospitable, rich, and good :In fair Arisbas walls (his native place)He held his seat; a friend to human by the road,
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