The whole poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq., including his translations of Homer's Iliad and OdysseySamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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... a fpectator . The courfe of his verses refe : n- bles that of the army he describes . turns in one Οἱ δ ' ἄρ ' ἴσαν , ὡσεί τε πυςὶ χθὼν πᾶσα νέμοιο . VOL . VI . A " They pour along like a fire that fweeps the PREFACE. ...
... a fpectator . The courfe of his verses refe : n- bles that of the army he describes . turns in one Οἱ δ ' ἄρ ' ἴσαν , ὡσεί τε πυςὶ χθὼν πᾶσα νέμοιο . VOL . VI . A " They pour along like a fire that fweeps the PREFACE. ...
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... turn , and an enthufiaft in poetry . His own boaft of having finifhed half the Iliad in lefs than fifteen weeks ... turns on the words , nor fometimes the very caft of the periods ; neither to omit nor confound any rites or cuftoms ...
... turn , and an enthufiaft in poetry . His own boaft of having finifhed half the Iliad in lefs than fifteen weeks ... turns on the words , nor fometimes the very caft of the periods ; neither to omit nor confound any rites or cuftoms ...
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... turns his bofom rul'd , Now fir'd by wrath , and now by reafon cool'd : That prompts his hand to draw his deadly fword , 255 Force through the Greeks , and pierce their haughty lord : 195 This whispers foft , his vengeance to controul ...
... turns his bofom rul'd , Now fir'd by wrath , and now by reafon cool'd : That prompts his hand to draw his deadly fword , 255 Force through the Greeks , and pierce their haughty lord : 195 This whispers foft , his vengeance to controul ...
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... turns comply ; So fhall the Gods our joint decrees obey , And Heaven fhall act as we direct the way . See ready Pallas waits t y high commands , To raife in arms the Greek and Phrygian bands ; Their fudden friendship by her arts may ...
... turns comply ; So fhall the Gods our joint decrees obey , And Heaven fhall act as we direct the way . See ready Pallas waits t y high commands , To raife in arms the Greek and Phrygian bands ; Their fudden friendship by her arts may ...
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... turns , The groan ftill deepens , and the combat burns . Now fhield with fhield , with helmet helmet clos'd , To armour armour , lance to lance oppos'd , Hoft against host with shadowy fquadrons drew , 510 The founding darts in iron ...
... turns , The groan ftill deepens , and the combat burns . Now fhield with fhield , with helmet helmet clos'd , To armour armour , lance to lance oppos'd , Hoft against host with shadowy fquadrons drew , 510 The founding darts in iron ...
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Página 374 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Página 388 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Página 10 - For to satisfy such as want either is not in the nature of this undertaking, since a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern, and a pedant nothing that is not Greek.
Página 381 - I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air ; Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 62 - 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 pass'd away.
Página 386 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Página 331 - Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Página 326 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Página 471 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 321 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...