The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... shall here endeavour to fhew , how this vaft Inven- tion exerts itself in a manner fuperior to that of any poet , through all the main conftituent parts of his work , as it is the great and peculiar characteristic which dif- tinguishes ...
... shall here endeavour to fhew , how this vaft Inven- tion exerts itself in a manner fuperior to that of any poet , through all the main conftituent parts of his work , as it is the great and peculiar characteristic which dif- tinguishes ...
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... shall find no author has ever drawn fo many , with fo visible and furprizing a variety , or given us fuch lively and affecting impreffions of them . Every one has fomething so fingularly his own , that no pain- ter could have ...
... shall find no author has ever drawn fo many , with fo visible and furprizing a variety , or given us fuch lively and affecting impreffions of them . Every one has fomething so fingularly his own , that no pain- ter could have ...
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... shall be fenfible what a fhare of praise is due to his invention in that . He was not fatisfied with his fanguage as he found it fettled in any one part of Greece , but fearched through its differing dialects with this particular view ...
... shall be fenfible what a fhare of praise is due to his invention in that . He was not fatisfied with his fanguage as he found it fettled in any one part of Greece , but fearched through its differing dialects with this particular view ...
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... shall perceive the chief objections against him to proceed from fo noble a cause as the excess of this faculty . Among thefe we may reckon fome of his Marvellous Fictions , upon which fo much criticifm has been spent , as furpaffing all ...
... shall perceive the chief objections against him to proceed from fo noble a cause as the excess of this faculty . Among thefe we may reckon fome of his Marvellous Fictions , upon which fo much criticifm has been spent , as furpaffing all ...
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... shall plead in vain ; Till time fhall rifle every youthful grace , And age difmifs her from my cold embrace , In daily labours of the loom employ'd , Or doom'd to deck the bed fhe once enjoy'd . Hence then , to Argos fhall the maid ...
... shall plead in vain ; Till time fhall rifle every youthful grace , And age difmifs her from my cold embrace , In daily labours of the loom employ'd , Or doom'd to deck the bed fhe once enjoy'd . Hence then , to Argos fhall the maid ...
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands bold brave breaſt chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcends Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhades fhall fhining fhips fhore fide field fierce fight filent filver fire firft firſt fix'd flain flames flew fome foul fpear ftand ftill ftrength fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hafte hand Heaven Hector heroes himſelf hoft hoftile Homer honours hoſt Idomeneus immortal javelin Jove king lance laſt Lycian mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince Pylian race rage rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhield ſhining ſhips ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoil ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood ſtrong thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wound
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Página 6 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Página 10 - ... together by the extent and fecundity of his imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, presented themselves in an instant, and had their impressions taken off to perfection at a heat...
Página 13 - Thus his measures, instead of being fetters to his sense, were always in readiness to run along with the warmth of his rapture, and even to give a farther representation of his notions, in the correspondence of their sounds to what they signified.
Página 29 - I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned.
Página 268 - But thou, O king, to council call the old; Great is thy sway, and weighty are thy cares; Thy high commands must spirit all our wars. With Thracian wines recruit thy honour'd guests, For happy counsels flow from sober feasts.
Página 1 - Nature to more regularity, and such a figure, which the common eye may better take in, and is therefore more entertained with. And perhaps the reason why common...
Página 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Página 2 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Página 30 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Página 239 - Olympus' cloudy tops arise. The sire of gods his awful silence broke, The heavens, attentive, trembled as he spoke : "Celestial states, immortal gods, give ear! Hear our decree, and reverence what ye hear ! The fix'd decree, which not all heaven can move ; Thou, Fate ! fulfil it ; and, ye powers, approve...