"Peleus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... years, and the degenerate race of mortals who have succeeded the paladins of former days. He does not tell us that Achilles was wrathful and impetuous; but every time he speaks, the anger of the son of Peleus comes boiling over his lips. He does not describe Agamemnon as overbearing and haughty; but the pride of the king of men is continually appearing in his words and actions, and it is the evident moral of the Iliad to represent its pernicious effects on the affairs ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various
... which the poets mention as given her upon her supposed marriage with Peleus, was a Pharos of the same kind as that described above. We may learn, from Catullus, who copied the story, that the whole alluded to an historical picture preserved in some tower; and that it referred to ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant
... among others, there is the noble city of Pelusium, which is said to have been founded by Peleus, the father of Achilles, who by command of the gods was ordered to purify himself in the lake adjacent to the walls of the city, when, after having slain his brother Phocus, he was driven about by horrid images of the Furies; and Cassium, where the tomb of ...
— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus
... and cast forth a toothless spear and vain, That forthwith from the griding brass was put aback all spent, And from the shield-boss' outer skin hung down, for nothing sent. Then Pyrrhus cried: 'Yea tell him this, go take the tidings down To Peleus' son my father then, of Pyrrhus worser grown And all these evil deeds of mine! take heed to tell the tale! Now die!' And to the altar-stone him quivering did he hale, 550 And sliding in his own son's blood so plenteous: in his hair Pyrrhus his left hand wound, ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... his defensio Regia by Peter English, 7 pence. A Relation of the fight in 1665 betwixt the Dutch and English and ane answer of our comissioners to England in 1647; both of them, 4 pence. Argentraei Commentarii ad consuetudines Brittaniae, 9 shil's st. Peleus his Quaestiones illustres and arrests of parliament, 6 shill's sterling. The History and Life of the Duke D'Espernon, 15 shi's ster. 4 volumes of English pamphlets, most of them upon the late troubles in Britain, 15 shils. sterling. For the English ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder
... he had much rather be a peasant slave upon the earth than reign over all the dead. So much did the inactivity and slothful condition of that state displease his unquenchable and restless spirit. Only he inquired of Ulysses if his father Peleus were living, and how ...
— THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES • CHARLES LAMB |
