The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's Homer. The OdysseyH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Gods con- tinue to this day the Gods of poetry . We come now to the characters of his perfons ; and here we shall find no author has ever drawn fo many , with so visible and furprizing a variety , or given us fuch lively and affecting ...
... Gods con- tinue to this day the Gods of poetry . We come now to the characters of his perfons ; and here we shall find no author has ever drawn fo many , with so visible and furprizing a variety , or given us fuch lively and affecting ...
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... gods to men . His expreffion is like the colouring of fome great masters , which discovers itself to be laid on boldly , and executed with rapidity . It is indeed the ftrongest and moft glowing imaginable , and touched with the greatest ...
... gods to men . His expreffion is like the colouring of fome great masters , which discovers itself to be laid on boldly , and executed with rapidity . It is indeed the ftrongest and moft glowing imaginable , and touched with the greatest ...
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... heavens ; Virgil , like the fame power in his benevolence , counfelling with the gods , laying plans for empires , and regularly ordering his whole creation . But , But , after all , it is with great parts PREFACE . 15.
... heavens ; Virgil , like the fame power in his benevolence , counfelling with the gods , laying plans for empires , and regularly ordering his whole creation . But , But , after all , it is with great parts PREFACE . 15.
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... Gods and heroes , fuch as the far - darting Phoebus , the blue - eyed Pallas , the fwift - footed Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and tediously repeated . Those of the Gods depended upon the powers and offices ...
... Gods and heroes , fuch as the far - darting Phoebus , the blue - eyed Pallas , the fwift - footed Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and tediously repeated . Those of the Gods depended upon the powers and offices ...
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... Gods , and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the bleffed . * " Now among the divine honours which were paid them , they might have this alfo in common with the Gods , not to be mentioned without the folemnity of an epithet ...
... Gods , and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the bleffed . * " Now among the divine honours which were paid them , they might have this alfo in common with the Gods , not to be mentioned without the folemnity of an epithet ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles againſt Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands beneath bold brave breaſt chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcend Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhall fhining fhips fhore fide field fierce fight filent filver fire firft firſt fix'd flain flames flew fome foul fpear ftand ftill ftrength fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hafte hand Heaven Hector heroes himſelf hoft hoftile Homer honours hoſt Idomeneus immortal javelin Jove king lance laſt Lycian maid Menelaus mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince proud Pylian race rage rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhield ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoils ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wiſdom wound
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 197 - 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 pass'd away.
Seite 21 - Homer and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Seite 262 - 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 10 - ... together by the extent and fecundity of his imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, presented themselves in an instant, and had their impressions taken off to perfection at a heat...
Seite 224 - This from the right to left the herald bears, Held out in order to the Grecian peers ; Each to his rival yields the mark unknown, Till godlike Ajax finds the lot his own ; Surveys th...
Seite 29 - 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 33 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 239 - The heavens attentive trembled as he spoke: "Celestial states! immortal gods! give ear, Hear our decree, and reverence what ye hear; The fix'd decree which not all heaven can move; Thou, fate! fulfil it! and, ye powers, approve!
Seite 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Seite 6 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?