The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... rest of the world will call dullness . There is a graceful and dignified fimplicity , as well as a bold and fordid one , which differ as much from each other as the air of a plain man from that of a floven ; it is one thing to be ...
... rest of the world will call dullness . There is a graceful and dignified fimplicity , as well as a bold and fordid one , which differ as much from each other as the air of a plain man from that of a floven ; it is one thing to be ...
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... rest , whenever any can be as fully and fignificantly expreft in a fingle word as in a compound one , the courfe to be taken is obvious . Some that cannot be fo turned as to preferve their full image by one or two words , may have ...
... rest , whenever any can be as fully and fignificantly expreft in a fingle word as in a compound one , the courfe to be taken is obvious . Some that cannot be fo turned as to preferve their full image by one or two words , may have ...
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... rest of the Greeks ; and complaining to Thetis , the fupplicates Jupiter to render them fenfible of the wrong done to her fon , by giving victory to the Trojans . Jupiter granting her fuit incenfes Juno , between whom the debate runs ...
... rest of the Greeks ; and complaining to Thetis , the fupplicates Jupiter to render them fenfible of the wrong done to her fon , by giving victory to the Trojans . Jupiter granting her fuit incenfes Juno , between whom the debate runs ...
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... rifing o'er the rest , Achilles thus the king of men addrest : Why leave we not the fatal Trojan shore , And measure back the feas we croft before ? D 4 80 The The plague deftroying whom the fword would spare , " ILIAD , BOOK I. 39.
... rifing o'er the rest , Achilles thus the king of men addrest : Why leave we not the fatal Trojan shore , And measure back the feas we croft before ? D 4 80 The The plague deftroying whom the fword would spare , " ILIAD , BOOK I. 39.
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... rest . He fees , and fudden to the goddess cries , Known by the flames that sparkle from her eyes . Defcends Minerva in her guardian care , A heavenly witness of the wrongs I bear From Atreus ' fon : then let those eyes that view The ...
... rest . He fees , and fudden to the goddess cries , Known by the flames that sparkle from her eyes . Defcends Minerva in her guardian care , A heavenly witness of the wrongs I bear From Atreus ' fon : then let those eyes that view The ...
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...