The Works of the British Poets, Volumen12John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh., 1795 - 1157 páginas |
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... wound . Then , with a figh , that heav'd his manly breast , The royal brother thus his grief expreft , [ round And graip'd his hands ; while all the Greeks a- With aufwering fighs return'd the plaintive found : Oh dear as life ! did I ...
... wound . Then , with a figh , that heav'd his manly breast , The royal brother thus his grief expreft , [ round And graip'd his hands ; while all the Greeks a- With aufwering fighs return'd the plaintive found : Oh dear as life ! did I ...
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... wound , In act to throw ; but , cautious , look'd around . Struck at his fight the Trojans backward drew , And trembling heard the javelin as it flew . A chief ftood nigh , who from Abydos came , Old Priam's fon , Democcön was his name ...
... wound , In act to throw ; but , cautious , look'd around . Struck at his fight the Trojans backward drew , And trembling heard the javelin as it flew . A chief ftood nigh , who from Abydos came , Old Priam's fon , Democcön was his name ...
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... wound the favage race : 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 ; From Menelaus ' arm the weapon fent , Through ...
... wound the favage race : 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 ; From Menelaus ' arm the weapon fent , Through ...
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... wound ; When thus the king his guardian power addreft , The purple current wandering o'er his veft : O progeny of Jove ! unconquer'd maid ! If e'er my godlike Sire deferv'd thy aid , If e'er I felt thee in the fighting field , Now ...
... wound ; When thus the king his guardian power addreft , The purple current wandering o'er his veft : O progeny of Jove ! unconquer'd maid ! If e'er my godlike Sire deferv'd thy aid , If e'er I felt thee in the fighting field , Now ...
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... wound . Then , with a voice that shook the vaulted skies , The king infults the Goddess as the flies . Ill with Jove's daughter bloody fights agree , The field of combat is no scene for thee : Go , let thy own foft fex employ thy care ...
... wound . Then , with a voice that shook the vaulted skies , The king infults the Goddess as the flies . Ill with Jove's daughter bloody fights agree , The field of combat is no scene for thee : Go , let thy own foft fex employ thy care ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Achilles Æneas Ajax Alcinous ANTISTROPHE arms Atrides beneath blood bold brave breaft caft chief coaft courfers crown'd death defcends divine dreadful Eurymachus Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fame fate feaft fear feas fecret feems fhade fhall fhining fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filver fince fire firft fkies flain flame flies foft fome forrows foul fpear ftand ftill ftrength fuch fury fword Georgic Goddeſs Gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hafte hand Heaven Hector hero himſelf hoft honours Idomeneus Iliad Ilion Jove king labours laft lefs loft mighty mortal muft Neptune night numbers o'er Pallas Patroclus Peleus Pindar plain poet prefent Priam prince queen race rage reft rife ſhall ſhore ſkies ſpread ſtand ſtate Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan Troy Ulyffes vafe veffel Virgil whofe woes wound youth
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Página 115 - Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite ; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed : The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute, and cittern's silver sound : Through the fair streets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show.
Página 419 - All were attentive to the godlike man, When from his lofty couch he thus began: 'Great queen, what you command me to relate, Renews the sad remembrance of our fate: An empire from its old foundations rent, And...
Página iv - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in...
Página x - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Página 37 - Behold the mighty Hector's wife! Some haughty Greek, who lives thy tears to see, Embitters all thy woes by naming me. The thoughts of glory past, and present shame A thousand griefs shall waken at the name. May I lie cold before that dreadful day, Press'd with a load of monumental clay! Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep, Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
Página vi - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Página 231 - Now wasting years my former strength confound, And added woes have bow'd me to the ground: Yet by the stubble you may guess the grain, And mark the ruins of no vulgar man.
Página 126 - Talk not of life, or ransom (he replies): Patroclus dead, whoever meets me, dies: In vain a single Trojan sues for grace; But least, the sons of Priam's hateful race. Die then, my friend! what boots it to deplore? The great, the good Patroclus is no more! He, far thy better, was foredoom'd to die, And thou, dost thou bewail mortality?
Página 389 - By this it is probable that Homer lived when the Median monarchy was grown formidable to the Grecians, and that the joint endeavours of his countrymen were little enough to preserve their common freedom from an encroaching enemy. Such was his moral, which all...