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Part I. EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. 99
Whom Boras lent (his son and only joy)
From fruitsul Tarne to the fields os Troy.
The Cretan jav’lin reach’d him from afar,
And pierc’d his Ihoulder as he mounts his car.
Iliad, v. Sys
It is {sill worse to fall back to the past in the same
period; for that is an anticlimax in description :
Through breaking ranks his furious course he bends,
And at the goddess his broad lance extends ;
Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove,
Th’ ambrosial veil , which all the graces wove :
Her snowy hand the razing steel profan’d,
And the transparent Ikin with crimson stain’d.
Iliad, v. ipT
Again , describing the fliield ofjupiter ,
Here all the terrors of grim War appear ,
Here rages Force, here tremble Flight and Fear,
Here storm’d Contention, and here Fury frown’d,
And the dire orb portentous Gorgon crown’d.
Iliad , v. 914.
Nor is it pleasant to be carried backward and for-
ward alternately in a rapid succession :
Then dy’d Scamandrius , expert in the chace ,
In woods and wilds to Wound the savage race 5
.Diana taught him all her sylvan arts ,
To bend the bow and aim unerring darts ;
But vainly here Diana's arts he tries ,
The fatal lance arrests him as he flies 5
Whom Boras lent (his son and only joy)
From fruitsul Tarne to the fields os Troy.
The Cretan jav’lin reach’d him from afar,
And pierc’d his Ihoulder as he mounts his car.
Iliad, v. Sys
It is {sill worse to fall back to the past in the same
period; for that is an anticlimax in description :
Through breaking ranks his furious course he bends,
And at the goddess his broad lance extends ;
Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove,
Th’ ambrosial veil , which all the graces wove :
Her snowy hand the razing steel profan’d,
And the transparent Ikin with crimson stain’d.
Iliad, v. ipT
Again , describing the fliield ofjupiter ,
Here all the terrors of grim War appear ,
Here rages Force, here tremble Flight and Fear,
Here storm’d Contention, and here Fury frown’d,
And the dire orb portentous Gorgon crown’d.
Iliad , v. 914.
Nor is it pleasant to be carried backward and for-
ward alternately in a rapid succession :
Then dy’d Scamandrius , expert in the chace ,
In woods and wilds to Wound the savage race 5
.Diana taught him all her sylvan arts ,
To bend the bow and aim unerring darts ;
But vainly here Diana's arts he tries ,
The fatal lance arrests him as he flies 5