...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...tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky honours gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field ; Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend,...

...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...tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky honours gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field ; Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend,...

...flames before proud I lion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long refleetions of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble...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...

...manner is to Homer's plain and natural manner : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And brighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections...fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires — and much more of the same kind. I want to show you that it is possible, in a plain passage of this...

...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...fires, Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. {Homers Iliad, viii. — POPE. THE ROSE. When, at the early glance of morn, It sleeps upon the glittering...

...reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. * Iliad, viii, 660. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Pull fifty guards each fiaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send ; Loud...

...flames before prond Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long reflectious of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. ?, Iliad, viil. HATEFULNESS OF WAR. Cursed is the man, and void of law and right, Unworthy property,...

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...Eye the blne vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections...tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky honours gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend,...