 Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.  Select British Classics - 第 82 頁1803完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Christoph Loreck - 2005 - 236 頁
...from Pope's "Woes"34 of Greece in his translation of the Iliad, which starts with the following lines: "Achilles' Wrath, to Greece the direful Spring / Of Woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing !"35 Pope's famous first lines, well-known then and now, spring to mind immediately. Chapman's translation... | |
 | 2005 - 229 頁
...Iliad. The work of death is very much an issue of these canvases. The opening line of the poem — "Achilles' Wrath, to Greece the direful spring of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing!" — imagined in the third painting, is traced as it metamorphoses, fading ultimately to the pure white... | |
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