The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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الصفحة 13
... Grecian poet has not been fo frequently celebrated on this account as the Roman , the only rea- fon is , that fewer criticks have understood one lan- guage than the other . Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus has pointed out many of our Author's ...
... Grecian poet has not been fo frequently celebrated on this account as the Roman , the only rea- fon is , that fewer criticks have understood one lan- guage than the other . Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus has pointed out many of our Author's ...
الصفحة 36
... Grecian camp to ranfom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The priest being refused , and infolently difmiffed by Agamemnon , intreats for vengeance from his God , who inflicts a peftilence ...
... Grecian camp to ranfom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The priest being refused , and infolently difmiffed by Agamemnon , intreats for vengeance from his God , who inflicts a peftilence ...
الصفحة 39
... Grecian hearts to wound ; Fierce as he mov'd , his filver shafts refound . Breathing revenge , a fudden 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 ...
... Grecian hearts to wound ; Fierce as he mov'd , his filver shafts refound . Breathing revenge , a fudden 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 ...
الصفحة 40
... Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehenfive view The past , the prefent , and the future knew : Uprising flow , the venerable fage Thus fpoke the prudence and the fears of age . Belov'd of Jove , Achilles ! would ...
... Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehenfive view The past , the prefent , and the future knew : Uprising flow , the venerable fage Thus fpoke the prudence and the fears of age . Belov'd of Jove , Achilles ! would ...
الصفحة 48
... Grecian ftate . Young as ye are , this youthful heat restrain , Nor think your Neftor's years and wifdom vain . A Godlike race of heroes once I knew , Such , as no more thefe aged eyes shall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ...
... Grecian ftate . Young as ye are , this youthful heat restrain , Nor think your Neftor's years and wifdom vain . A Godlike race of heroes once I knew , Such , as no more thefe aged eyes shall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ...
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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...