 All Troy then moves to Priam's court again, A solemn, silent, melancholy train: Assembled there, from pious toil they rest, And sadly shared the last sepulchral feast. Such honours Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade.  Classical Philology - Page 2771923Full view - About this book
 | Fisher Ames - 1809 - 576 pages
...purer and more tranquil region. We are left to endless labours and unavailing regrets. Such honours Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade. 37 THE most substantial glory of a country, is in its virtuous great men : its prosperity will depend... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 pages
...Pisces so fortunately revealed to Sir John, and by him communicated to the universe. ' Such honours Ilion to her hero paid ; And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade.' ART. VIII. A Statement of Facts delivered to Lord Minto, Governor General of India, &c. on his fate... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1817 - 592 pages
...Assembled there from pious toils they rest, And sadly share the last sepulchral Jeast ; Such honours Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade." So great an honour was this feast considered, both to the decased and bis family, that the use of it... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...purer and more tranquil region. We are left to endless labours and unavailing regrets. Such honours Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade. The most substantial glory of a country, is in its virtuous great men : its prosperity will depend... | |
 | 1820 - 730 pages
...the last line of the Iliad, by a scrupulous translator, that for Pope's closing couplet, Such honours Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade ; *hkh certainly somewhat embellishes the simplicity of the original, ¿T¡J rn aX.nl>> Ktya Mu!a*piMf... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...Assembled there, from pious toil they rest, And sadly shared the last sepulchral feast. Such honours Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade. 322 CONCLUDING NOTE. WE have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the... | |
 | Homer - 1825 - 286 pages
...Assemhled there, from pious toil they rest. And sadly shar'd the last sepulchral feast. Such honours Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade. CONCLUSION OF THE NOTES. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen tr a. anger of Achilles, and... | |
 | 1836 - 296 pages
...melancholy train. Assembled there, from pious toil they rest, And sadly shared the last sepulchral feast. Such honors Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade." Too wide, I grant — yet it is Pope, the king of translators. Addison, dear reader, was not a bad... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...Assemhled there, from pious toil they rest. And sadly shared the last sepulehral feast. Such honours ucus) to the wandering tribe. For needy strangers still to flattery f W к have now passed through the I)iad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 688 pages
...When he had concluded, his lordship desired him to read again the last two verses : " Such honours Ilion to her hero paid ; And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade. " Mr. Pitt had no doubt that in wishing a repetition of these lines, his father anticipated the honours... | |
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