The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... combat , nor in council join'd ; But wafting cares lay heavy on his mind : . In his black thoughts revenge and slaughter roll , And scenes of blood rife dreadful in his foul . 635 < Twelve days were past , and now the dawning light The ...
... combat , nor in council join'd ; But wafting cares lay heavy on his mind : . In his black thoughts revenge and slaughter roll , And scenes of blood rife dreadful in his foul . 635 < Twelve days were past , and now the dawning light The ...
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... combat fit the rattling car . 455 This day , this dreadful day , let each contend ; No reft , no refpite , till the fhades defcend ; Till darkness , or till death , fhall cover all 460 Let the war bleed , and let the mighty fall ! Till ...
... combat fit the rattling car . 455 This day , this dreadful day , let each contend ; No reft , no refpite , till the fhades defcend ; Till darkness , or till death , fhall cover all 460 Let the war bleed , and let the mighty fall ! Till ...
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... , 530 Swells their bold hearts , and strings their nervous arms ; No more they figh , inglorious , to return , But breathe revenge , and for the combat burn . 525 As As on fome mountain , through the lofty grove , 84 POPE'S HOMER .
... , 530 Swells their bold hearts , and strings their nervous arms ; No more they figh , inglorious , to return , But breathe revenge , and for the combat burn . 525 As As on fome mountain , through the lofty grove , 84 POPE'S HOMER .
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... combat by his fide . Who fair Zeleia's wealthy valleys till , Faft by the foot of Ida's facred hill ; 999 995 . 1000 1005 Or drink , Æsepus , of thy fable flood : Were led by Pandarus , of royal blood . To whom his art Apollo deign'd to ...
... combat by his fide . Who fair Zeleia's wealthy valleys till , Faft by the foot of Ida's facred hill ; 999 995 . 1000 1005 Or drink , Æsepus , of thy fable flood : Were led by Pandarus , of royal blood . To whom his art Apollo deign'd to ...
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... combat is agreed upon between Menelaus and Paris ( by the intervention of Hector ) for the determination of the war . Iris is fent to call Helena to behold the fight . She leads her to the walls of Troy , where Priam fat with his ...
... combat is agreed upon between Menelaus and Paris ( by the intervention of Hector ) for the determination of the war . Iris is fent to call Helena to behold the fight . She leads her to the walls of Troy , where Priam fat with his ...
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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.