The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, المجلد 19Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... rest , the diction and versification only are his proper province ; since these must be his own ; but the others he is to take as he finds them . It should then be considered what methods may afford some equivalent in our language for ...
... rest , the diction and versification only are his proper province ; since these must be his own ; but the others he is to take as he finds them . It should then be considered what methods may afford some equivalent in our language for ...
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... rest : Then spread the tables , the repast prepare , Each takes his seat , and each receives his share . When now the rage of hunger was represt , With pure libations they conclude the feast ; The youths with wine the copious goblets ...
... rest : Then spread the tables , the repast prepare , Each takes his seat , and each receives his share . When now the rage of hunger was represt , With pure libations they conclude the feast ; The youths with wine the copious goblets ...
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... rest he fill'd ; and in his turn , [ ceiv'd . Each to his lips apply'd the nectar'd urn . Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies , And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies . Thus the blest gods the genial day prolong , In feasts ...
... rest he fill'd ; and in his turn , [ ceiv'd . Each to his lips apply'd the nectar'd urn . Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies , And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies . Thus the blest gods the genial day prolong , In feasts ...
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... rest , secure of future harms . Two lambs , devoted by your country's rite , To Earth a sable , to the Sun a white , Prepare , ye Trojans ! while a third we bring Select to Jove , th ' inviolable king . Let reverend Priam in the truce ...
... rest , secure of future harms . Two lambs , devoted by your country's rite , To Earth a sable , to the Sun a white , Prepare , ye Trojans ! while a third we bring Select to Jove , th ' inviolable king . Let reverend Priam in the truce ...
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... rest ? " Ajax the great , " the beauteous queen replied ; " Himself a host : the Grecian strength and pride . See ! bold Idomeneus superior towers Amidst yon circle of his Cretan powers , Great as a god ! I saw him once before , With ...
... rest ? " Ajax the great , " the beauteous queen replied ; " Himself a host : the Grecian strength and pride . See ! bold Idomeneus superior towers Amidst yon circle of his Cretan powers , Great as a god ! I saw him once before , With ...
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الصفحة 58 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, 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 every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
الصفحة 210 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
الصفحة 75 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give...
الصفحة 329 - I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English, as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age.
الصفحة 61 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
الصفحة 18 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows,* Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
الصفحة 297 - The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears ; and, trembling with delight.
الصفحة 131 - Scarce the whole people stop his desperate course, While strong affliction gives the feeble force: Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun, Imploring all, and naming one by one: 'Ah! let me, let me go where sorrow calls; I, only I, will issue from your walls (Guide or companion, friends!
الصفحة 11 - But that which is to be allowed him, and which very much contributed to cover his defects, is a daring fiery spirit that animates his translation, which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself would have writ before he arrived at years of discretion.
الصفحة 157 - Perverse mankind ! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute decree ; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of Fate.