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...at was steered into a narrow chan- nel between two which stood up like the fangs of a great tooth, and afforded a pleasant shade; but there was such a... ...nd her Irish swain had no doubt been driven off into the woods by Eyoub—no Achilles cer- tainly, but equally unwilling with the great Pelides to resig...

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...ar- boring place forever. If you would save these tender blossoms from the fangs of the worst of serpents, gentleman, you have neither time to lose no... ...y a long mile from his French commerades; and like a rattler that lost his fangs, he can do no further mischief, until such time as he, and we too, ma... ... in an open circle. CHAPTER 29 “The assembly seated, rising o’er the rest, Achilles thus the king of men addressed.” —Pope’s Illiad CORA STOOD FOREMOS...

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...cide? Which of us could give judgement for Clarissa or Lovelace, Hector or Achilles? Who was Homer’s hero? What did Richardson himself think? It is th... ...stens on all good work, like wasps on ripe fruit, has attempted to set its fangs in this production. The captious critic, trying his best to find faul... ... take the article on Nathan to Hector. Journalism is really very much like Achilles’ lance, it salves the wounds that it makes,” said Lucien, correcti...

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...m nothing usu- ally affrights. The mouth, toothless except for a few black fangs, was threatening; the saliva made a foam within it, which did not, ho... ... see,” said Corentin, grasping the Provencal’s hand, “you are the lance of Achilles.” And he left the room with Katte to receive Doctor Bianchon. Left...

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...t they talked about motor cars and pump-guns and heaven only knew what new-fangled fads. Mr. Stowbody felt out of place with them. But his brick house... ...as no way out between their pressing gray shoulders. She was surrounded by fangs and sneer- ing eyes. She could not go on enduring the hidden derision... ... in music, oratory, philanthropy, and ethics. “We don’t need all this new- fangled science, or this terrible Higher Criticism that’s ruining our young... ... all tore down and rebuilt, Carrie? I don’t know where folks get these new-fangled ideas. Lots of farmers in Dakota getting ‘em these days. About co- ... ...ught to give you one.” He hymned the old unhappy wars in which he had been Achilles and the mellifluous Nestor, yet gone his righ- 267 Sinclair Lewis... ...much more education, from him than he has from me.” “What’s this? Some new-fangled idea of raising kids you got in Washington?” “Perhaps. Did you ever...

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...Excerpt: SING, O GODDESS, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled...

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... Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; art work: Rubens and Assistent, Achilles V anquishes Hecktor , (1630 1632) Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylva... ...d By Homer Translated by Samuel Butler BOOK I SING, O GODDESS, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achæans. Man... ...ve fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one an other. And which of the gods was it... ... nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly—moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achæa... ...o had inspired him. With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus— “Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Ap... ...by Imbrius. As two lions snatch a goat from the hounds that have it in their fangs, and bear it through thick brushwood high above the ground in their...

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...h sentient soul of hate and wrath, And wings to sweep thy deadly path, And fangs to tear thy prey? Or art thou mix’d in Nature’s source, An ever-opera... ...w nigh to my cell for shel- ter; neither shall the goat be afraid of their fangs. I am the torch and the lantern—Kyrie Eleison!” He closed his song by... ...and as white as snow. Their faces, marked with many a scar from clutch and fang, showed their share in collecting the tro- phies upon which they repos... ...ugust, Philip might be termed the Ulysses, as Richard was indisputably the Achilles, of the Crusade. The King of France was sagacious, wise, deliberat... ...nguish its form. “Beware— I am here for death and life.” “Take up thy long-fanged Sathanas,” said the voice, “or I will conjure him with a bolt from m... ... her charms, he dare not raise his mane, Far less expand the terror of his fangs. So great Alcides made his club a distaff, And spun to please fair Om...

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...onsters, arm’d in front or jaw, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.” — Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To th... ... whales. Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem th... ...han terrific, to the dumb gloating of their aspect. So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his heral- dic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shr... ...nlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles’s shield; and full of barbaric spirit and suggestiveness, as the p... ...ld not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. 468 Moby Dick These are the times, when in his whale-boat the rover ... ...ie in it!” CHAPTER 119 The Candles W ARMEST CLIMES BUT NURSE the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. ...

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...id of the following leading men in the first battle after the secession of Achilles: Elphenor, chief of the Euboeans; Tlepolemus, of the Rhodians; Pan... ...he wild legend of Odysseus, he met with a ballad, recording the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon. His noble mind seized the hint that there pre 21 ... ...es, woo the same loves, burn 25 Pope with the same sense of injury, as an Achilles or a Hector. And if we can but attain this degree of enthusiasm (a... ...e anew? What toils by sea! where dark in quest of prey Dauntless we roved; Achilles led the way; What toils by land! where mix’d in fatal fight Such n... ...atal fight Such numbers fell, such heroes sunk to night; There Ajax great, Achilles there the brave, There wise Patroclus, fill an early grave: There,... ...awn, Bore on full stretch, and seized a dappled fawn; Deep in the neck his fangs indent their hold; They pant and struggle in the moving gold. Fine as...

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...o the constant man’s mind as he walked towards her house. The arch and the Achilles statue were up since he had last been in Piccadilly; a hundred cha... ...on his people and often plunges them into war. Example: The selfishness of Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the ... ...yes and curly hair, ogle ladies in riding habits prancing by the Statue of Achilles at Apsley House. Jos, although provided with some of the most 97 ... ...lait,” Jos said in his grandest manner, when he was able to speak. “Quater fang tooce!” said the student, starting up, and he bounced into his own roo...

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...ll melan- choly, but the dejection was lessened, and though it was only of Achilles and Patroclus that they talked, she was convinced that the pressur... ...by an apology for having by no means perfected herself in Priam’s visit to Achilles. “If you have been making visits,” said Mr. Belamour: “I too have ... ...left ten or a dozen years ago,” said he; and, extracting the ball from the fangs of the dog, “No, and this ball ain’t ten year old, neither. Come, Mot...

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........................................................ 474 THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES—Iliad, i. 149 ....................................................... ........................................................ 478 THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES—Iliad, i. 225 ....................................................... ...ANS AND TROJANS—Iliad, xvii, 426 ....................... 483 THE HORSES OF ACHILLES—Iliad, xvii, 426..................................................... ...t the slightest sign to scour away, And hang itself afresh by the bleeding fangs, Upon the neck of some death-singled stag, Whose royal antlers, eyes,... ...ain Is no force in Westermain. Wait, and we shall forge him curbs, Put his fangs to uses, tame, T each him, quick as cunning herbs, 196 How to cure h... ...iting from many Bleeding mothers bleeding sense Feels ‘twixt her and sharp-fanged nature Honour first did plant the fence. 261 XVI Nature, that so sh... ..., Earth gives the edifice they build no base: They spring another flood of fangs and claws. 344 WINTER HEAVENS Sharp is the night, but stars with fro... ... from Nature won, Nor let the poet’s awe in rapture wane. THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES—Iliad, i. 149 “Heigh me! brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder... ...traged, thou mayst gather here plunder and wealth-store.” THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES—Iliad, i. 225 “Bibber besotted, with scowl of a cur, having heart ...

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...; nor was it very easy, I should imagine, to dig out all those deep rooted fangs from the dead dragon’s jaws. But Cadmus toiled and tugged, and after ... ...is tail was neither more nor less than a live dragon, with fiery eyes, and fangs that had a very poi sonous aspect. And while the three headed Cerber... ...aking a great figure in the world. The famous Hercules was one, and so was Achilles, and Philoctetes likewise, and Aesculapius, who acquired immense r...

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...ued your prey like bloodhounds— have you never seen bloodhounds turn their fangs against each other, and fight over the body of a throttled deer?” “It... ...on the present occasion, “I am just now like the half-pike, or spontoon of Achilles, one end of which could wound and the other cure—a prop- 211 Sir ... ... fair Briseis were removed from our camp before the return of our Highland Achilles, Allan M’Aulay .—I fear some fatal feud in that quarter, Menteith—...

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...was so fervent that I was in no greater danger of becoming effeminate than Achilles when he wore girl’s clothes. She was seventeen, an age bewitching ... ...s! T ake him all round, who wouldn’t rather have had him for a father than Achilles? And there were just as many women in love with him.’ ‘More,’ said... ... my heart, for it must have cost him something to let Ulysses be set above Achilles, ‘T elemachus is the one I mean. He was in search of his father. H... ...semblance to the old mon- sters of the mud. Do you not see their claws and fangs, Harry? Do you find an apology in their acts for intemperate con- duc... ...ze that I was one of the brainless young savages, creatures with claws and fangs. Her face was unchanged to me. The homeliness of her large mild eyes ...

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...ord Eldon himself, the most prudent of men, make a runaway match? Were not Achilles and Ajax both in love with their servant maids? And are we to expe... ...ore 212 V anity Fair red jackets still; where there were oil-lamps; where Achilles was not yet born; nor the Pimlico arch raised; nor the hideous equ... ...nting, and I will show them now that I can speak and act as well as write. Achilles did not declare himself until they gave him the sword. I hold it n... ...o the constant man’s mind as he walked towards her house. The arch and the Achilles statue were up since he had last been in Piccadilly; a hundred cha... ...on his people and often plunges them into war. Example: The selfishness of Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the ... ...lait,” Jos said in his grandest manner, when he was able to speak. “Quater fang tooce!” said the student, starting up, and he bounced into his own roo...

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...d they will sleep with luxury spent, When those detested hearts their iron fangs have rent! _4125 38. 38. 38. 38. 38. ‘Our God may then lull Pestilenc... ...vulture, and set him free; and Thetis was married to Peleus, the father of Achilles. Shelley adapted the catastrophe of this story to his pecu- liar v... ...lf to be! And ever at thy season be thou free T o spill the venom when thy fangs o’erflow; _330 Remorse and Self-contempt sha...

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...l his footmanship shall scarce prevail To keep his carcass from their bloody fangs.— Ho, Belimoth, Argiron, Asteroth! BENVOLIO. Hold, hold!—Zounds, he... ...th weak Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. O, thou art fa...

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...t and feasible, And, surely, with a stripling of sixteen Not scandal’s fangs could fix on much that ‘s seizable, Or if they did so, satisfie... ...ut seldom mentions, But the best dish that e’er was cook’d since Homer’s Achilles ordered dinner for new comers. I ‘ll tell you who they were, t... ...ank’d by the Hellespont and by the sea) Entomb’d the bravest of the brave, Achilles; They say so (Bryant says the contrary): And further downw... ...aves nothing till ‘the coming of the just’ — Save change: I ‘ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb, And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome. The ... ...rtal, could one tell their story? Alas! what to their memory can lack? Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new an... ... Jove! he was a noble fellow, Johnson, And though his name, than Ajax or Achilles, Sounds less harmonious, underneath the sun soon We shall ... ..., felt his heel Seized fast, as if ‘t were by the serpent’s head Whose fangs Eve taught her human seed to feel: In vain he kick’d, and swore, ...

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...“A million!” cried the abbe; “why, for less than half, I would have half Paris sacked.” “There must be no disorder,” said Pellisson. “The gover- nor b... ...bor by the messenger whom he had directed to precede him, he would hardly have had strength to ask his way. Having once, however, reached the house wh...

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...elen, for whose sake so long The time was fraught with evil; there the great Achilles, who with love fought to the end. Paris I saw, and Tristan; and ... ...When that great worm Descried us, savage Cerberus, he op’d His jaws, and the fangs show’d us; not a limb Of him but trembled. Then my guide, his palms... ...with the head, the breast, the feet, Cutting each other piecemeal with their fangs. The good instructor spake; “Now seest thou, son! The souls of... ...ti:” cried they all: And on himself the moody Florentine Turn’d his avenging fangs. Him here we left, Nor speak I of him more. But on mine ear Sudden ... ...ate. He in the midst, that on his breast looks down, Is the great Chiron who Achilles nurs’d; That other Pholus, prone to wrath.” Around The foss thes... ...at have newly slipp’d the leash. On him, who squatted down, they stuck their fangs, And having rent him piecemeal bore away The tortur’d limbs. My gui... ...ss, Which sow’d imperial Rome; nor less the guile Lament they, whence of her Achilles ‘reft Deidamia yet in death complains. And there is rued the str... ...me, that either cheek was stain’d, Now minister’d my cure. So have I heard, Achilles and his father’s javelin caus’d Pain first, and then the boon of... ...akspeare, Henry VI. p. ii. a. 5. s. 1. Whose smile and frown like to Achilles’ spear Is able with the change to kill and cure. v. 14. ...

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...elen, for whose sake so long The time was fraught with evil; there the great Achilles, who with love fought to the end. Paris I saw, and Tristan; and ... ...When that great worm Descried us, savage Cerberus, he op’d His jaws, and the fangs show’d us; not a limb Of him but trembled. Then my guide, his palms... ...with the head, the breast, the feet, Cutting each other piecemeal with their fangs. The good instructor spake; “Now seest thou, son! The souls of... ...ti:” cried they all: And on himself the moody Florentine Turn’d his avenging fangs. Him here we left, Nor speak I of him more. But on mine ear Sudden ... ...ate. He in the midst, that on his breast looks down, Is the great Chiron who Achilles nurs’d; That other Pholus, prone to wrath.” Around The foss thes... ...at have newly slipp’d the leash. On him, who squatted down, they stuck their fangs, And having rent him piecemeal bore away The tortur’d limbs. My gui... ...ss, Which sow’d imperial Rome; nor less the guile Lament they, whence of her Achilles ‘reft Deidamia yet in death complains. And there is rued the str... ...me, that either cheek was stain’d, Now minister’d my cure. So have I heard, Achilles and his father’s javelin caus’d Pain first, and then the boon of... ...akspeare, Henry VI. p. ii. a. 5. s. 1. Whose smile and frown like to Achilles’ spear Is able with the change to kill and cure. v. 14. ...

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...The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica dressed by the Centaur Chiron to his pupil Achilles. Even less is known of the poem called the “Great Works”: the titl... ...scription of the shield of Heracles, in imitation of the Homeric shield of Achilles (Iliad xviii. 478 ff.). Noth- ing shows more clearly the collapse ... ...has nothing that remotely approaches such scenes as that between Priam and Achilles, or the pathos of Andromache’s preparations for Hector’s return, e... ... of the Iliad; in the same poem Antilochus, slain by Memnon and avenged by Achilles, is obviously modelled on Patroclus. 4) The geographical knowledge... ...e used. The chief greatness of the Iliad is in the character of the heroes Achilles and Hec- tor rather than in the actual events which take place: in... ...-month. On that day tame sheep and sham- bling, horned oxen, and the sharp-fanged dog and hardy mules to the touch of the hand. But take care to avoid... ...e engaged ib battle: and behind them the dusky Fates, gnashing their white fangs, lowering, grim, bloody, and unapproachable, struggled for those who ...

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...ous. See Helen, for whom so long a time of ill revolved; and see the great Achilles, who at the end fought with love. See Paris, T ristan,—” and more ... ...Cerberus, the great worm, observed us he opened his mouths, and showed his fangs to us; not a limb had he that he kept quiet. And my Leader opened wid... ... the middle, who is gazing on his breast, is the great Chiron who nurtured Achilles. That other is Pholus, who was so full of wrath. Round about the d... ...his suffice to know of the first valley, and of those that it holds in its fangs.” Now we were where the narrow path sets across the second dyke, and ... ...he clasped his paunch, and with his forward took his arms, then struck his fangs in one and the other cheek. His hinder feet he stretched upon the thi... ... his followers who became the seed of the Romans. Deidamia was the wife of Achilles, who slew her- self for grief at his desertion and departure for T... ...it they lament for the artifice whereby the dead Deidamia still mourns for Achilles, and there for the Palladium they bear the penalty.” “If they can ... ... and then supplied the medicine to me. Thus do I hear 1 that the lance of Achilles and of his father was wont to be cause first of a sad and then of ... ...emed to me weary, and it seemed to me I saw their flanks torn by the sharp fangs. “When I awoke before the morrow, I heard my sons, who were with me, ...

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... careful swain Looks keenly forward to the coming year, With Saturn’s curved fang pursues and prunes The vine forlorn, and lops it into shape. Be firs... ...y have gripped the soil, and borne the breeze. Earth of herself, with hooked fang laid bare, Yields moisture for the plants, and heavy fruit, The plou... ...lae; such the pair In Grecian song renowned, those steeds of Mars, And famed Achilles’ team: in such like form Great Saturn’s self with mane flung loo... ...ight a second Argo bear; New wars too shall arise, and once again Some great Achilles to some Troy be sent. Then, when the mellowing years have made t...

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... it in print:—’that he was a man pickled in saltpetre when an infant, like Achilles, and 10 The Amazing Marriage proof against powder and shot not ma... ...hanging, on a bend of the knees. Right and left, the fury of the slavering fangs shook her loose droop of gown; and a dull, prolonged growl, like the ... ...rror in the blood of the population, conceiving the word to signify, beak, fang, 366 The Amazing Marriage and claw, the fiendish ancient enemy of the...

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..., but breathes in sighs. There I with little innocents abide, Who by death’s fangs were bitten, ere exempt From human taint. There I with those abide,... ... so intense th’ imagin’d flames, That needs my sleep was broken off. As erst Achilles shook himself, and round him roll’d His waken’d eyeballs wond’ri... ...the my brow. Statius they name me still. Of Thebes I sang, And next of great Achilles: but i’ th’ way Fell with the second burthen. Of my flame Those ...

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...less dissatisfied faces; And a song make I of the One form’d out of all, The fang’d and glittering One whose head is over all, Resolute warlike One in... ...t is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets, We prowl fang’d and four footed in the woods, we spring on prey, We are two clouds... ... Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts, That matter of Troy and Achilles’ wrath, and AEneas’, Odysseus’ wanderings, Placard “Removed” and... ...ate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,) Raise the fang’d and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon’d mistress, Pi... ...’d voice harping, screeching? THE W ALLABOUT M ARTYRS Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses, More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander, Th... ...beautiful, and emulate at will, Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax, Or Shakspere’s woe entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennys... ...rand is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the 560 Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses, 519 H Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange music...

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...corpse of the wife of my bosom. But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend! No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk i... ...uman foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.” “And the motto ?” “Nemo me impune lacessit... ...it of effect. In their voracity the vermin frequently fastened their sharp fangs in my fingers. With the particles of the oily and spicy viand which n... ...erity which, while enjoying the poignancy of its own jokes, has no heel of Achilles in itself, and absolutely refuses to be laughed at. I could find, ...

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..., Psalmo nescio quo. Yet did I quote it in my note-book, et est unum bonum Achilles, a good defend- 79 Rabelais ing argument. Hem, hem, hem, haikhash... .... Fabius, a threader of beads. Artaxerxes, a rope-maker. Aeneas, a miller. Achilles was a scaldpated maker of hay-bundles. Agamemnon, a lick-box. Ulys... ... him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia. I have, answered 323 Rabelais Panurge, a flea in min... ...y the malice and suggestions of the devil. It is only the novelty and new- fangledness thereof which I dislike, together with the con- tempt of common... ...t he was in prison, hearing the recitation of this verse of Homer, said of Achilles in the Ninth of the Iliads— We, the third day, to fertile Pthia c... ...heir mournful mood for the death of Patroclus, the most intimate friend of Achilles, till hunger in a rage declared herself, and their bellies protest... ...mples of Isaac, of Jacob, of Patroclus to- wards Hector, of Hector towards Achilles, of Polymnestor towards Agamemnon, of Hecuba, of the Rhodian renow... ... answered Homenas; this is one of the quirks and little satires of the new-fangled heretics. Chapter 4.LIII. How by the virtue of the decretals, gold ... ...e, his talons like those of the harpies, his snout like a hawk’s bill, his fangs or tusks like those of an overgrown brindled wild boar; his eyes were...

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..., the foundation of every court of law … .” “Be quiet, you ass. You are an Achilles for virtue, without his heel,” said Bixiou. “Some drink!” “What wi... ...ne of the most frightful pleasures of my life, one of those pleasures with fangs that bury themselves in the heart as the branding- iron enters the co...

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... make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Art Work: Rubens and Assistent, Achilles Vanquishes Hecktor , (1630 1632). Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylva... ...d, or has rejected, a magnificent opportunity. With regard to the slaying of Achilles by the hand of Apollo only, and not by those of Apollo and Paris... ...xii. 355 60, and xxi. 277 78). But, in describing the fight for the body of Achilles ( Odyssey xxiv. 36 sqq.), Homer makes Agamemnon say: “So w... ...t doom. And she such deeds she promised as no man Had hoped for, even to lay Achilles low, To smite the wide host of the Argive men, And cast the bran... ...ships. Ah fool! — but little knew she him, the lord Of ashen spears, how far Achilles’ might In warrior wasting strife o’erpassed her own! But when An... ...f death; but these, although With walls ringed round, yet tear with tusk and fang What luckless thrall soever draweth near. So these death compassed h... ... turned and fled The bitter battle, those hard after them Followed, as white fanged hounds hold deer in chase Up the long forest glens. Full many in ... ... ‘neath his foot grew evermore The festering wound, dealt when the envenomed fangs Tare him of that fell water snake, which men Say dealeth ghastly wo... ...bones, for that fierce venom crawled Through all his inwards with corrupting fangs; And his life fainted in him agony thrilled. As one with sickness a...

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...there could be no question as to whence the sound issued. It came from the fang—like teeth of the dwarf, who ground them and gnashed them as he foamed... ...llest extent a mouth from ear to ear, so as to display a set of jagged and fang-like teeth, and, throwing back his head, laughed long, loudly, wickedl... ...ith mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And the angels sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out—out are the lights—out all ! And, over ... ...reathing isles of the blest; Where the mighty of old have their home Where Achilles and Diomed rest 229 V olume Five III In fresh myrtle my bla...

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... and ev’ry leader known. There Agamemnon, Priam here, he spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies. He stopp’d, and weeping said: “O friend! e... ...ns yield, And here the trembling Trojans quit the field, Pursued by fierce Achilles thro’ the plain, On his high chariot driving o’er the slain. The t... ... taste, or drink the Xanthian flood. Elsewhere he saw where Troilus defied Achilles, and unequal combat tried; Then, where the boy disarm’d, with loos... ...he stern goddess stands unmov’d with pray’r. Thrice round the Trojan walls Achilles drew The corpse of Hector, whom in fight he slew. The Aeneid Vir... ...n the Trojan shore; The steeds of Diomede varied the discourse, And fierce Achilles, with his matchless force; At length, as fate and her ill stars re... ...ake; And first around the tender boys they wind, Then with their sharpen’d fangs their limbs and bodies grind. The wretched father, running to their a...

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...ot less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer [Achilles?]; but if the poet may take his colors from that nature by which h... ... anger r From the spear of Keitolainen. 286 The Kalevala Whence arose thy fangs of poison? From the teeth of Mana’s daughter. Whence then was thy bac...