 | Homer - 1883 - 524 pages
...days, like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. These, when the Spartan queen approach'd the tower In secret own'd resistless...world in arms ; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, O Heaven, convey that fatal face, And... | |
 | Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga - 1886 - 204 pages
...Madonna di Fuligno in our gallery upstairs— should turn a weak man's head. ' No wonder/ you know,— " No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years...world in arms ! What winning graces ! What majestic mien . She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.' But I must add with Old Priam's councillors, —... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1893 - 396 pages
...occasion cannot be too often repeated, nor their example too strictly imitated : — " They cry'd, No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years...world in arms ; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, 0 Heaven ! convey that fatal face, And... | |
 | Sir Edward Sullivan - Women - 1894 - 132 pages
...agreed at once that no blame could be attached either to Greeks or Romans for fighting in such a cause. They cried, No wonder such celestial charms For nine...have set the world in arms. What winning graces, what celestial mien ! She moves a goddess and she walks a Queen. But it was not Helen's eyes, throat, limbs,... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 450 pages
...summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. These, when the Spartan queen approach'd the tower, In secret own'd resistless...world in arms ; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen! Yet hence, oh Heaven ! convey that fatal face, And... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 460 pages
...summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. These, when the Spartan queen approach'd the tower, In secret own'd resistless...years have set the world in arms; What winning graces I what majestic mien I She moves a Goddess, and she looks a QueenI Yet hence, oh Heaven I convey that... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 460 pages
...summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. These, when the Spartan queen approach'd the tower, In secret own'd resistless...celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arras; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen! Yet hence,... | |
 | Homer - 1896 - 208 pages
...ever assumed, rather than described. The nearest approach to description occurs in Book III. : — " No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years...world in arms ; What winning graces \ what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! " 427. *' 'Tis not in mortals to command success."... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 476 pages
...among the people marveling at the beauty of Helen are represented as speaking thus to one another: — "They cried, 'No wonder such celestial charms For...world in arms; — What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. >a From the « Deipnosophists." FRANCIS ATTERBURY... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...among the people marveling at the beauty of Helen are represented as speaking thus to one another:— "They cried, <No wonder such celestial charms For...have set the world in arms; — What winning graces 1 what majestic mien! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. '" From the « Deipnosophists." FRANCIS... | |
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No wonder * such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms ; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, O Heaven, convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan... 
