The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Página 46
... Pelides : With regardful ear ' Tis juft , O Goddess ! I thy dictates hear . Hard as it is , my vengeance I suppress : Those who revere the Gods , the Gods will blefs . 290 He He faid , obfervant of the blue - ey'd Maid 46 , POPE'S HOMER .
... Pelides : With regardful ear ' Tis juft , O Goddess ! I thy dictates hear . Hard as it is , my vengeance I suppress : Those who revere the Gods , the Gods will blefs . 290 He He faid , obfervant of the blue - ey'd Maid 46 , POPE'S HOMER .
Página 47
... hear me fwear , Which never more shall leaves or bloffoms bear , Which fever'd from the trunk ( as I from thee ) , On the bare mountains left its parent tree ; This fceptre , form'd by temper'd steel to prove An enfign of the delegates ...
... hear me fwear , Which never more shall leaves or bloffoms bear , Which fever'd from the trunk ( as I from thee ) , On the bare mountains left its parent tree ; This fceptre , form'd by temper'd steel to prove An enfign of the delegates ...
Página 49
... hear my age advife .. Atrides , feize not on the beauteous flave ; That prize the Greeks by common fuffrage gave : Nor thou , Achilles , treat our prince with pride ; Let kings be juft , and fovereign power prefide . Thee , the first ...
... hear my age advife .. Atrides , feize not on the beauteous flave ; That prize the Greeks by common fuffrage gave : Nor thou , Achilles , treat our prince with pride ; Let kings be juft , and fovereign power prefide . Thee , the first ...
Página 59
... hear ; Refufe , or grant ; for what has Jove to fear ? Or , oh ! declare , of all the powers above , Is wretched Thetis leaft the care of Jove ? She faid , and fighing thus the God replies , 670 Who rolls the thunder o'er the vaulted ...
... hear ; Refufe , or grant ; for what has Jove to fear ? Or , oh ! declare , of all the powers above , Is wretched Thetis leaft the care of Jove ? She faid , and fighing thus the God replies , 670 Who rolls the thunder o'er the vaulted ...
Página 68
... mighty toils to either host remain , What fcenes of grief , and numbers of the slain ! Eager he rifes , and in fancy hears So The voice celestial murmuring in his ears . Firft on his limbs a flender veft he drew , Firft 68 POPE'S HOMER .
... mighty toils to either host remain , What fcenes of grief , and numbers of the slain ! Eager he rifes , and in fancy hears So The voice celestial murmuring in his ears . Firft on his limbs a flender veft he drew , Firft 68 POPE'S HOMER .
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...