...Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light ; So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections...Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose number'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And...

...Eye the blue vault and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections...pile attend, Whose umbered arms by fits thick flashes lend." — POPE'S Homer.' * This passage, and the exquisite translation, or rather amplification, by...

...Eye the blue vault and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Iliou blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections...field ; Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whoso umbered arms by fits thick flashes lend." — POPE'S Homer.' * This passage, and the exquisite...

...and bless the useful light : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthas with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant...spires ; A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shed a shady lustre o'er the field." Virgil speaks of the profound tranquillity of nigbt, in a passage,...

...blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gtenm on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand...horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field, 'till fifty gunrd* nnch flaming pile attend, Vhosa uniber'd nrms by fits thick flashes send ; >nud...

...her light, And all the signs in heaven are scene, that glad the shepherd's heart." 264 [BOOK VTII. The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on...Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send : Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent...

...Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections...Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of coin, And ardent...

...and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xauthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant...Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umher'd arras by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent...

...and bless the useful light : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthas with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant...spires ; A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shed a shady lustre o'er the field." Virgil speaks of the profound tranquillity of night, in a passage,...

...the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light ; So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lightning glimmering Xanthus with their rays....long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the Avails, and tremble on the spires ; A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre...