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" Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch... "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 463
1853
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The Odyssey of Homer

Homer - 1761 - 474 pages
...this dol'rous gloom, 595 Nor think vain words, he cry'd, can eafe my doom : Rather I chufe laborioufly to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A Have to feme poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the fcepter'd monarch of the dead. 6rDO But...
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Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 90

1792 - 532 pages
...this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words/ he cried, 'can eafe my doom.1 Rather I choofe laboriourty to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A flave to fome poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the fçepter'd monarch of the dead. POPE....
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...this dolorous gloom, Kof think yaio xvords (he cried) can eaie my doom. < Hi: her I choofe laborioudy to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A .iivt ti fume poor bind that toils for bread ; i .riiti reign the fceptred monarch of the dead. Bat...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 16, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1796 - 426 pages
...this dol'rous glooiib Nor think vain words (he cry'd) can eafe my doom ; Rather I choofe laborioufly to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A SLATE TO SOME POOR HIND THAT TOILS FOR BREAD, THAN LIVE A SCEFTER'D MONARCH OF THE DÏAD. In this gloomy...
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Dialogues of Lucian: From the Greek, Volume 2

Lucian (of Samosata.) - 1779 - 446 pages
...a&ion of his life! who, when he might have reigned fecure many years [»] Rather 1 choofe laborioufly to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A flave to fome poor hind, that toils for bread, Than reign the fcepterM monarch of the dead. Pope's...
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The Miniature

Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 390 pages
...and striking proof. Rather I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital ^ir, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred momarch of the dead. POPE HOM. ODYSS. 11. 597. « The heathens therefore as being ignorant of the true...
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The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3

Homer - 1806 - 236 pages
...not of ruling in this dol'rous gloom, 595 Nor think vain words (he cry'd) can ease my doom. Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. But say, if in my steps my son proceeds, And emulates his godlike father's deeds? If at the clash of...
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Six Dissertations Upon Different Subjects

John Jortin - 1809 - 268 pages
...Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words, he cried, can ease my doom : Bather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead." But, considering the disposition and the character of Achilles, he could not be happy in a state which...
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Suppliants. Iphigenia in Aulis. Iphigenia in Tauris. Rhesus. Trojan captives ...

Euripides - 1809 - 544 pages
.../Swro; ereJa<f ita H ulawiv nxuwtrt Kara ^liUIVOi<riv nvaa-ffea. Odyss. L. ii. ^. 488* Rather I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes and breathe the...some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the scepter'd monarch of the dead. P0PE. At Argos, will they kill, nor in their rage Spare either you or...
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The Greek tragic theatre: containing Æschylus by dr. Potter ..., Volume 3

Greek tragic theatre - 1809 - 522 pages
...axXfljo, w foi /Biwof craXu; mi H Tsawn maaimi Kima f&pima» awrtrea. Odyss. L. ii. v. 488, Bather I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes and breathe the...some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the scepter'd monarch of the dead, POPE. At Argos, will they kill, nor in their rage Spare either you or...
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