The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer

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H. Hughs, 1779

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Seite 252 - The ills ye mourn ; your own the guilty deed. Ye gave your sons, your lawless sons, the rein (Oft warn'd by Mentor and myself in vain) ; An absent hero's bed they sought to soil, An absent hero's wealth they made their spoil ; Immoderate riot, and intemperate lust ! The offence was great, the punishment was just.
Seite 104 - This said, the honest herdsman strode before; The musing monarch pauses at the door: The dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd, Takes a last look, and having seen him, dies; So closed for ever faithful Argus...
Seite 103 - He knew his lord ; he knew, and strove to meet ; In vain he strove to crawl and kiss his feet ; Yet (all he could) his tail, his ears, his eyes, Salute his master, and confess his joys.
Seite 173 - My grape shall redden, and my harvest grow. Or if each other's wrongs ye still support, With rapes and riot to profane my court; What single arm with numbers can contend? On me let all your lifted swords descend, And with my life such vile dishonours end.
Seite 227 - And gulf'd in crowds at once the sailors die ; If one, more happy, while the tempest raves, Outlives the tumult of conflicting waves, All pale, with ooze deform'd, he views the strand, And plunging forth with transport grasps the land : The ravish'd queen with equal rapture glows, Clasps her loved lord, and to his bosom grows. Nor had they ended till the morning ray, But Pallas...
Seite 199 - Confus'd the suitors stood; From their pale cheeks recedes the flying blood; Trembling they sought their guilty heads to hide, Alone the bold Eurymachus replied.
Seite 269 - Turnus gives an eminent example, how far removed the style of them ought to be from such an excess of figures and ornaments : which indeed fits only that language of the Gods we have been speaking of, or that of a muse under inspiration.
Seite 93 - O dearest, most rever'd of womankind! Cease with those tears to melt a manly mind, (Replied the prince) nor be our fates deplor'd, From death and treason to thy arms restor'd. Go bathe, and rob'd in white, ascend the towers; With all thy handmaids thank th' immortal powers; To every god vow hecatombs to bleed, And call Jove's vengeance on their guilty deed.
Seite 280 - Homer as the greatest of human Poets, whereas in hers he was exalted above humanity ; infallibility and impeccability were two of his attributes.
Seite 31 - From earth removed him to the shades below, The large domain his greedy sons divide, And each was portion'd as the lots decide. Little, alas ! was left my wretched share...

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