The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... stood , Talthybius and Eurybates the good . Hafte to the fierce Achilles ' tent ( he cries ) Thence bear Brifeïs as our royal prize : Submit he muft ; or , if they will not part , 415 420 Ourfelf in arms fhall tear her from his heart ...
... stood , Talthybius and Eurybates the good . Hafte to the fierce Achilles ' tent ( he cries ) Thence bear Brifeïs as our royal prize : Submit he muft ; or , if they will not part , 415 420 Ourfelf in arms fhall tear her from his heart ...
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... , far apart , and high above the rest , 649 The Thunderer fat ; where old Olympus shrouds His hundred heads in heaven , and props the clouds . Suppliant Suppliant the Goddefs stood : one hand she plac'd 650 58 POPE'S HOMER .
... , far apart , and high above the rest , 649 The Thunderer fat ; where old Olympus shrouds His hundred heads in heaven , and props the clouds . Suppliant Suppliant the Goddefs stood : one hand she plac'd 650 58 POPE'S HOMER .
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. Suppliant the Goddefs stood : one hand she plac'd 650 Beneath his beard , and one his knee embrac'd : If e'er , O Father of the Gods ! she said , My words could please thee , or my ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. Suppliant the Goddefs stood : one hand she plac'd 650 Beneath his beard , and one his knee embrac'd : If e'er , O Father of the Gods ! she said , My words could please thee , or my ...
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... stood In radiant arms , and thirst for Trojan blood , Each leader now his scatter'd force conjoins In close array , and forms the deepening lines . Not with more ease , the skilful fhepherd fwain Collects his flocks from thousands on ...
... stood In radiant arms , and thirst for Trojan blood , Each leader now his scatter'd force conjoins In close array , and forms the deepening lines . Not with more ease , the skilful fhepherd fwain Collects his flocks from thousands on ...
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... stood ; From Ripè , Stratie , Tegea's bordering towns , The Phenean fields , and Orchomenian downs , Where the fat herds in plenteous pasture rove ; And Stymphelus with her furrounding grove , Parrhafia , on her fnowy cliffs reclin'd ...
... stood ; From Ripè , Stratie , Tegea's bordering towns , The Phenean fields , and Orchomenian downs , Where the fat herds in plenteous pasture rove ; And Stymphelus with her furrounding grove , Parrhafia , on her fnowy cliffs reclin'd ...
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Achilles Æneas againſt Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands bold brave breaſt cauſe chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers courſe crown'd daring dart defcend Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhall fhining fhore fide field fierce fight filent filver fire firft firſt fix'd flain flames flaughter flew fome foul fpear ftrength fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hafte hand Heaven Hector heroes himſelf hoft hoftile Homer honours hoſt Idomeneus Iliad immortal javelin Jove king lance laſt Lycian Menelaus mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oïleus Pallas Pandarus Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince Pylian race rage raiſe rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhips ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoils ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds ſtood thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes Virgil walls warriour whofe whoſe wound
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Seite 1 - 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.
Seite 149 - 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 past away.
Seite 9 - 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.
Seite 8 - I must confess myself utterly incapable of doing justice to Homer. I attempt him in no other hope, but that which one may entertain without much vanity, of giving a more tolerable copy of him than any entire...
Seite 17 - Tis ours the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis safer through the camp to go, And rob a subject, than despoil a foe.
Seite 123 - So spoke the god who darts celestial fires: He dreads his fury, and some steps retires. Then Phoebus bore the chief of Venus...
Seite 6 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Seite 3 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Seite 7 - Homer, and which, though it might be accommodated (as has been already shewn) to the ear of those times, is by no means so to ours: but one may wait for opportunities of placing them, where they derive an additional beauty from the occasions on which they are employed ; and in doing this properly, a translator may at once shew his fancy and his judgment.