 | Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 pages
...maleficent energy. Keats has no such reference in the following description of Thea in ' Hyperion':— She was a goddess of the infant world; By her in stature...Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestal'd haply in a palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. there is, besides... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pages
...on the third syllable. 2 The Titans were the children of Uranus and Gasa (Heaven and Earth). Touched his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence,...Achilles by the hair and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stayed Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestal'd haply in a palace court,... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1890 - 308 pages
...have left us, were giants to lie proud of. (Laughter and cheers.) They were men who WouM have taken Achilles by the hair and bent his neck, Or with a finger stayed Iiion's wheel. (Cheers.) Then there is the elfin creed of Cornwall — a perfectly fascinating... | |
 | John Keats - 1891 - 236 pages
...seem'd no force could wake him from his place ; But there came one, who with a kindred hand Touch'd his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. 25 She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...seem'd no force could wake him from his place ; But there came one, who with a kindred hand Touched his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence,...Achilles by the hair and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stayed Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx^ Pedestal'd haply in a palace-court,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 pages
...Who on wide plains gather in panting troops, When earthquakes jar their battlements and towers.' ' By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's...Achilles by the hair and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stayed Ixion's wheel.' Here is no trace of Spenser's prodigal opulence, here in his maturity he is... | |
 | Richard Horton Smith - 1894 - 732 pages
...had left you to your own foolish guidance " ; Shelley Triumph of Life 89 sqq. ; Keats Hyperion L init "by her in stature the tall Amazon | had stood a pigmy's height. She would have ta'en | . . ." Isaiah xlviii. 18 "O that thou hadst hearkened ... ! then had thy peace been as a river .... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pages
...seemed no force could wake him from his place ; But there came one, who with a kindred hand Touched his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not." — Hyperion. " Who are these coming to the sacrifice ! To what green altar, 0 mysterious priest, Lead'st... | |
 | Margaret Sullivan Mooney - 1895 - 350 pages
...closed; While his bowed head seemed listening to the earth, His ancient mother, for some comfort yet. With reverence, though to one who knew it not. She...Achilles by the hair, and bent his neck, Or with a finger stayed Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestaled haply in a palace court,... | |
 | Virgil - 1895 - 888 pages
...as " a daughter of the gods, divinely tall " (Dream of Fair Women). Cf. Keats, Hyperion, i. 26-28: She was a goddess of the infant world : By her in...stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height. — dexträ. by the hand. — prehensum (se. me) cont ¡nuit : translate by two coordinate clauses... | |
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She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height: she would have ta'en Achilles by the hair and bent his neck; Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel. 
