Extracts from mr. Pope's translation corresponding with The beauties of Homer selected from the Iliad, by W. HolwellJ. and J. Fletcher : sold, 1776 - 319 páginas |
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Página xiv
... thee great Ilion's guardian heroes fall Till heaps of dead alone defend the wall . Mr. Pope at leaft deferts his guide , in order to give us this conceit of dead men defending a town ; for the original could not poffibly lead him into ...
... thee great Ilion's guardian heroes fall Till heaps of dead alone defend the wall . Mr. Pope at leaft deferts his guide , in order to give us this conceit of dead men defending a town ; for the original could not poffibly lead him into ...
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... thee infpire ? But fince with fortune nature doth conspire ; Since age , difeafe , or fome lefs noble end , Tho ' not lefs certain , does our day's attend ; Since ' tis decreed ; and to this period led A thousand ways , the noblest path ...
... thee infpire ? But fince with fortune nature doth conspire ; Since age , difeafe , or fome lefs noble end , Tho ' not lefs certain , does our day's attend ; Since ' tis decreed ; and to this period led A thousand ways , the noblest path ...
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... thee not , but prize at equal rate Thy fhort - liv'd friendship , and thy groundless hate . Go , threat thy earth - born Myrmidons ; but here ' Tis mine to threaten , prince , and thine to fear . Know , if the God the beauteous dame ...
... thee not , but prize at equal rate Thy fhort - liv'd friendship , and thy groundless hate . Go , threat thy earth - born Myrmidons ; but here ' Tis mine to threaten , prince , and thine to fear . Know , if the God the beauteous dame ...
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... thee ) . : On the bare mountains left its parent tree ; This fceptre , form'd by temper'd steel to prove An enfign of the delegates of Jove , From whom the pow'r of laws and juftice fprings : ( Tremendous oath ! inviolate to kings ) 1 ...
... thee ) . : On the bare mountains left its parent tree ; This fceptre , form'd by temper'd steel to prove An enfign of the delegates of Jove , From whom the pow'r of laws and juftice fprings : ( Tremendous oath ! inviolate to kings ) 1 ...
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... Thee , the first honours of the war adorn , Like Gods in ftrength , and of a Goddess born ; Him , awful majefty exalts above The pow'rs of earth , and scepter'd sons of Jove , Let both unite , with well - consenting mind , So fhall ...
... Thee , the first honours of the war adorn , Like Gods in ftrength , and of a Goddess born ; Him , awful majefty exalts above The pow'rs of earth , and scepter'd sons of Jove , Let both unite , with well - consenting mind , So fhall ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Achilles againſt Agamemnon Ajax Andromache Antilochus arms Atrides blood brave breaſt caft chariot chief cloſe clouds courfers dart death defcends Diomed divine dreadful duft Ev'n ev'ry eyes facred faid fall fame fate fends fhade fhall fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filver fire firft firſt fkies flain flames flies fome forrows foul fpear ftands ftern ftill ftrength fuch fury fword gen'rous glory goddeſs gods Grecian Greece Greeks hand heart heav'n heav'nly Hector hero himſelf hoft Idomeneus Iliad Ilion jav'lin Jove Jupiter king laft lance Menelaus muft muſt Neftor numbers o'er Patroclus Peleus plain pow'r Priam rage raiſe refound reft rife round Sarpedon Scamander ſcene ſhakes ſhall ſhining ſhore ſkies ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds tears terrours Teucer thee thefe theſe Thetis thofe thoſe thou thro tow'rs tranflation trembling Trojan troops Troy Ulyffes walls warriours whofe Whoſe wound
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Página 69 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 76 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Página 98 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Página 77 - 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 77 - And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers!
Página 76 - Priam's hoary hairs defil'd with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore, As thine, Andromache! Thy griefs I dread: I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led, In Argive looms our battles to design, And woes of which so large a part was thine!
Página 307 - Nineteen one mother bore — Dead, all are dead ! How oft, alas ! has wretched Priam bled ? Still one was left, their loss to recompense ; His father's hope, his country's last defence.
Página 282 - Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun, Imploring all, and naming one by one: 'Ah!
Página 160 - As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the...
Página 20 - The' assembly placed, the king of men express'd The counsels labouring in his artful breast. ' Friends and confederates! with attentive ear Receive my words, and credit what you hear.