 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
 | American essays - 1880 - 958 pages
...beautiful description of the ornamental border of the buckler of Achilles : — " ' Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean roimd ; In living silver seemed the waves to roll. And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.'"... | |
 | Engineering - 1881 - 566 pages
...to the mixture of lead. This word jaAA-Ji originally appears to have been the word for pure copper, In living silver seemed the waves to roll ; And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole. In this description of the casting, Homer uses the word jaAA;<5i, so that we can scarcely tell whether... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greece - 1882 - 312 pages
...States, then by the admission of California, just broadened out to stretch from sea to sea: Now the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole. This whole celebrated description, as translated with unsurpassed beauty and brilliancy by our American... | |
 | 1882 - 880 pages
...rolled, And stubborn brass, and tin, and solid gold. Thus the broad shield complete, the artist Browned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round ; In...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole. In this description of the casting, Homer uses the word Chalkbs, so that we can scarcely tell whether... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greece - 1882 - 314 pages
...broadened out to stretch from sea to sea : Now the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his Inst hand and poured the ocean round;' In living silver...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole. This whole celebrated description, as translated with unsurpassed beauty and brilliancy by our American... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...scale, the beautiful description of the ornamental border of the buckler of Achilles: Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole. The style of Webster is distinguished for clearness and conciseness of statement, for dignity and simplicity... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 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...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole." DOCUMENTS Illustrating the Constitutional History of the United States from 1620 to the present time.... | |
 | Webster Historical Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1883 - 314 pages
...the buckler of Achilles : 4 Xow. the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand, ami poured the ocean round; In living silver seemed the...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole.' " Webster lifted the Republic to the gaze of his countrymen as if full sure that no other argument... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - Readers - 1883 - 366 pages
...scale the beautiful description of the ornamental border of the bucklers of Achilles — "Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round. In living silver scemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound tho whole." 53. SPARTACUS TO THE... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1884 - 272 pages
...the beautiful description of the ornamental border of the buckler of Achilles : — "'Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole."' This is Pope's paraphrase, I will not say translation, of two lines of Homer's description of the shield... | |
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