The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's Homer. The OdysseyH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... of criticks : but that warmth of fancy will carry the loudest and most universal applauses , which holds the heart of a reader under the strongest enchantment . C 3 Homer Homer not only appears the Inventor of poetry , but PREFACE . 21.
... of criticks : but that warmth of fancy will carry the loudest and most universal applauses , which holds the heart of a reader under the strongest enchantment . C 3 Homer Homer not only appears the Inventor of poetry , but PREFACE . 21.
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... hearts to wound 3 Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound . Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll❜d about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the feather'd ...
... hearts to wound 3 Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound . Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll❜d about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the feather'd ...
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... heart fwell'd high , and labour'd in his breast . Distracting thoughts by turns his bofom rul'd , Now fir'd by wrath , and now by reafon cool'd : That prompts his hand to draw the deadly fword , 255 Force through the Greeks , and pierce ...
... heart fwell'd high , and labour'd in his breast . Distracting thoughts by turns his bofom rul'd , Now fir'd by wrath , and now by reafon cool'd : That prompts his hand to draw the deadly fword , 255 Force through the Greeks , and pierce ...
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... heart a deer ! 295 When wert thou known in ambush'd fights to dare , Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 ' Tis ours , the chance of fighting fields to try , Thine to look on , and bid the valiant die . So much ' tis fafer ...
... heart a deer ! 295 When wert thou known in ambush'd fights to dare , Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 ' Tis ours , the chance of fighting fields to try , Thine to look on , and bid the valiant die . So much ' tis fafer ...
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... heart . 425 Th ' unwilling heralds act their lord's commands ; Penfive they walk along the barren fands : Arriv'd , the Hero in his tent they find , With gloomy afpect , on his arm reclin'd . At awful distance long they filent stand ...
... heart . 425 Th ' unwilling heralds act their lord's commands ; Penfive they walk along the barren fands : Arriv'd , the Hero in his tent they find , With gloomy afpect , on his arm reclin'd . At awful distance long they filent stand ...
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles againſt Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands beneath bold brave breaſt chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcend Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent 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 maid Menelaus mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince proud Pylian race rage rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhield ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoils ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wiſdom wound
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Página 197 - 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 21 - Homer and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Página 262 - 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...
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 224 - This from the right to left the herald bears, Held out in order to the Grecian peers ; Each to his rival yields the mark unknown, Till godlike Ajax finds the lot his own ; Surveys th...
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 33 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Página 239 - 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!
Página 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
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?