 Now the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round ; In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.  Household Guest - Page 5631889Full view - About this book
 | William Simpson - China - 1874 - 582 pages
...shield, — • " Thus the broad shield complete the Artist crown'd With his last hand, and ponr'd the ocean round : In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And heat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole." Pope in his free translation omits the word " river,"... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 558 pages
...complete, the artist crovrn'd With his last band, and pour'tl the ocean round ; In living silver seom'd the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole. By HON. DANIEL WEBSTER, in the United States Senate, July 17, 1850. Mr. President, it has always seemed... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 714 pages
...possessions. He said that the country resembled Homer's description of the shield of Achilles : The shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round, In living silver seen the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole. Long may the republic enjoy... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 pages
...complete the artist crown'd With his last hand, and pour'd the ocean round: In living silver seem'd the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole. This done whate'er a warrior's use requires, He forged — the cuirass that outshines the fires, The... | |
 | Catherine Ann White - Classical literature - 1877 - 466 pages
...complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and pour'd the ocean round : In living silver seem'd tile waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole." From the nineteenth book to the close of the poem Achilles occupies the first place, rivalling by his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...the shield of Achilles, — " Thus the broad shield complete the artist crowned, With his last band, and poured the ocean round : In living silver seemed...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole" Warburton. Iliad, bk. xviii, CANTO III. Ver. 101. " Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurse, Et... | |
 | Rochester (Mass.) - Marion (Mass. : Town) - 1879 - 142 pages
...scale, the beautiful description of the ornamental edging of the buckler of Achilles : "Now the. broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand,...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole." him. How he loved to hunt and fish in our woods and waters ! spending days and weeks among us. The... | |
 | John Swett - English language - 1879 - 176 pages
...the beautiful description of the ornamental edging of the bucklers of Achilles — . "Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole." — Daniel Webster. 112. Dictation Exercise. Treat as in 111 and US. Oh ! But he was a tight-fisted... | |
 | John Swett - Spellers - 1879 - 176 pages
...scale the beautiful description of the ornamental edging of the bucklers of Achilles — "Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole." — Daniel Webster. 112. Dictation Exercise. Treat ag in 111 and US. Oh 1 But he was a tight-fisted... | |
 | Alfred Williams - Canals, Interoceanic - 1880 - 138 pages
...previously used Homer's beautiful description of the border of the shield of Achilles : " Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole." But while the aspirations and hopes alike of our people and our statesmen point to this wide ultimate... | |
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