The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An essay on ... Homer [by T. Parnell].1756 |
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... glory , Achilles ap- pears , Hector flies , and is flain . The manner in which his Gods are made to act , no less advances the gradation we are speaking of . In the first battels they are feen only in fhort and feparate excurfions ...
... glory , Achilles ap- pears , Hector flies , and is flain . The manner in which his Gods are made to act , no less advances the gradation we are speaking of . In the first battels they are feen only in fhort and feparate excurfions ...
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... glory . Among the reft , Plutarch , in the life of Alexander , describes his helmet much in this manner . This is enough to warrant the fiction , and were there no fuch example , the fame author fays very well , that the ima- gination ...
... glory . Among the reft , Plutarch , in the life of Alexander , describes his helmet much in this manner . This is enough to warrant the fiction , and were there no fuch example , the fame author fays very well , that the ima- gination ...
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... glory fhining on his face at his defcent from mount Sinai , a parallel which Spondanus has taken notice of . Virgil was too fenfible of the beauty of this paffage not to imitate it , and it must be owned he has surpassed his original ...
... glory fhining on his face at his defcent from mount Sinai , a parallel which Spondanus has taken notice of . Virgil was too fenfible of the beauty of this paffage not to imitate it , and it must be owned he has surpassed his original ...
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... glory of the Lycian name ? : 220 by Latona and Diana . As to his valour , he is fecond only to Hee ter , and in perfonal bravery as great in the Greek author as in the Roman . He is made to exert himself on emergencies of the first im ...
... glory of the Lycian name ? : 220 by Latona and Diana . As to his valour , he is fecond only to Hee ter , and in perfonal bravery as great in the Greek author as in the Roman . He is made to exert himself on emergencies of the first im ...
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... glory known . Thus while they fpoke , the foe came furious on , And ftern Lycaon's warlike race begun . Prince , thou art met . Tho ' late in vain affail'd , 340 The fpear may enter where the arrow fail'd . " } 345 He faid , then fhook ...
... glory known . Thus while they fpoke , the foe came furious on , And ftern Lycaon's warlike race begun . Prince , thou art met . Tho ' late in vain affail'd , 340 The fpear may enter where the arrow fail'd . " } 345 He faid , then fhook ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles Æneas Æneid affiftance againſt Agamemnon Ajax Andromache Apollo arms army battel becauſe brave breaſt caufe chariot chief circumftance combate compariſon courfers Dacier dart defcend defcribed defign Diomed dreadful Euftathius ev'ry facred faid fame fate fays feems fhall fhews fhould fide field fierce fight firft firſt flain fome fpear fpeech ftand ftrength fuch fuperior fury gates gen'rous Glaucus glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks heav'n Hector Helenus heroes himſelf Homer horfes Iliad immortal inftances Jove juft Juno Jupiter laft Lycian Mars Menelaus mighty Minerva mortal moſt muſt Neftor o'er obferve occafion paffage paffion Pallas Pandarus Paris perfons Phereclus plain Poet pow'r prefent Priam rage raiſe reafon reprefents rifing Sarpedon Scamander ſhake ſhall ſkies ſpear Spondanus ſteeds Sthenelus Teucer thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tlepolemus tranflated trembling Trojan Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes uſe Venus Virgil warrior whofe whoſe wound
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 237 - 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...
Seite 113 - 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 196 - Thunderer down to earth. Ye strive in vain! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus
Seite 141 - And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou!
Seite 122 - And draw new spirits from the generous bowl; Spent as thou art with long laborious fight, The brave defender of thy country's right." "Far hence be Bacchus' gifts; (the chief rejoin'd;) Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind, Unnerves the limbs, and dulls the noble mind.
Seite 210 - All famed in war, and dreadful hand to hand. Be mindful of the wreaths your arms have won, Your great forefathers' glories, and your own. Heard ye the voice of Jove ? Success and fame Await on Troy, on Greece eternal shame.
Seite 143 - No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb. Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth, And such the hard condition of our birth : No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave.
Seite 237 - Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus with their rays : The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires.
Seite 124 - The recreant warrior hear the voice of Fame. Oh would kind earth the hateful wretch embrace, That pest of Troy, that ruin of our race ! Deep to the dark abyss might he descend, Troy yet should flourish, and my sorrows end.
Seite 195 - Join all, and try th' omnipotence of Jove : Let down our golden everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main : Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth : Ye strive in vain ! If I but stretch this hand, I heave...