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" Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give me TO SEE, — and Ajax asks no more. "
The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes - Page 300
by Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 485 pages
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Select British Classics, Volume 37

English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...«ii. i' . <f'e 1/ ofcXuo/V/ 'E» /• 1?»u »»/ ->.i»-i-•i. HoM. O King! O fa'.her ! hear my humble prayer: Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven...see, and Ajax asks no more. If Greece must perish, \ve thy will obey ; But let us psrisli in the face of day! POPE. 1 AM obliged, for many reasons; to...
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The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction ...

Charles Rollin - Education - 1804 - 520 pages
...earth and air, Oh King, oh Father ! hear my humble pray'r : Dispel this cloud, the light of heav'n restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more ; If...thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day. POPE. Jupiter pater, scd tu llbera a. caliginejilios Addvorum, facque serenitatem, daque oculis ridcre...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...general darkness — Lord of earth and air! Oh king! oh father! hear my humble prayer: Dispel this clond, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax...thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day. : him to great Achilles' ear convej l fatal news — Atrides hastes away. 740 io turns the lion from...
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History of the House of Austria: From the Foundation of the ..., Volume 2

William Coxe - Austria - 1807 - 804 pages
...earth and air, Oh king ! oh father ! hear rny humble pray'r! Dispel this cloud ! the light of heav'n restore ! Give me to see ! and Ajax asks no more !...thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day ! With tears the hero spoke; and, at his pray'r, The God relenting cleared the clouded air : Forth...
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The British Essayists;: Guardian

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 358 pages
...aifj^nv, S£( J* oifi6aXl 'Ev JE i)iaii ui SAEITS-W. HOM. II. xvii. 645. O King ! O Father ! hear my humble prayer : Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven...thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day ! POPE. I AM obliged, for many reasons, to insert this first letter, though it takes me out of my way,...
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 436 pages
...shadow. We want information; we want light. Our prayer is that of the Grecian hero in the Iliad. ' Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give...thy will obey. But let us perish in the face of day !' The annals of history, my brethren, produce no parallel to the present situation of the world. The...
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The Port Folio, Volumes 5-6

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...Iliad. ' Dispel this cluuil, the light of heaven restore, Give me to see, and Ajax aslrs no more. It' Greece must perish, we thy will obey. But let us perish in the face of t\n\ !' The annals of history, my brethren, produce no parallel to the prosent situation of the world....
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The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...general darkness Lord of earth and air ! Oh King ! oh Father! hear my humhle prayer: Dispel this clond, the light of Heaven restore ; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more : 730 If Greece must perish, we thy will ohey, But let us perish in the face of day ! With tears the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...! Oh king! oh father ! hear my humble prayer: Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Gire me to see, and Ajax asks no more : If Greece must perish, we thy will obey, Eat let us perish in the face of day !" With tears the hero (poke, and at his prayer The god relenting,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...In general darkness — Lord of earth and air ! Oh king! oh father ! hear my humble prayer: Dt-pel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more : tf Greece must perish, we thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day !" With tears the hero...
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