The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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الصفحة 6
... especially the machines of the Gods . He feems the first who brought them into a system of ma- chinery for poetry , and fuch a one as makes its greatest importance and dignity . For we find thofe authors who impor- .6 PREFACE .
... especially the machines of the Gods . He feems the first who brought them into a system of ma- chinery for poetry , and fuch a one as makes its greatest importance and dignity . For we find thofe authors who impor- .6 PREFACE .
الصفحة 7
... Gods con- tinue to this day the Gods of poetry . We come now to the characters of his persons ; and here we shall find no author has ever drawn fo many , with fo visible and furprizing a variety , or given us fuch lively and affecting ...
... Gods con- tinue to this day the Gods of poetry . We come now to the characters of his persons ; and here we shall find no author has ever drawn fo many , with fo visible and furprizing a variety , or given us fuch lively and affecting ...
الصفحة 15
... firing the heavens ; Virgil , like the fame power in his benevolence , counfelling with the gods , laying plans for empires , and regularly ordering his whole creation . But , : But , after all , it is with great PREFACE . 15.
... firing the heavens ; Virgil , like the fame power in his benevolence , counfelling with the gods , laying plans for empires , and regularly ordering his whole creation . But , : But , after all , it is with great PREFACE . 15.
الصفحة 18
... Gods and heroes , fuch as the far - darting Phoebus , the blue - eyed : Pallas , the fwift - footed Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and tediously repeated . Those of the Gods depended upon the powers and offices ...
... Gods and heroes , fuch as the far - darting Phoebus , the blue - eyed : Pallas , the fwift - footed Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and tediously repeated . Those of the Gods depended upon the powers and offices ...
الصفحة 19
... Gods , and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed . * ” Now among the divine honours which were paid them , they might have this alfo in common with the Gods , not to be mentioned without the folemnity of an epithet ...
... Gods , and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed . * ” Now among the divine honours which were paid them , they might have this alfo in common with the Gods , not to be mentioned without the folemnity of an epithet ...
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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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الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...