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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... Grecian poet has not been fo frequently celebrated on this account as the Roman , the only rea- fon is , that fewer criticks have understood one lan- guage than the other . Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus has pointed out many of our Author's ...
... Grecian poet has not been fo frequently celebrated on this account as the Roman , the only rea- fon is , that fewer criticks have understood one lan- guage than the other . Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus has pointed out many of our Author's ...
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... Grecian camp to ransom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The priest being refused , and infolently difmiffed by Agamemnon , intreats for vengeance from his God , who inflicts a peftilence ...
... Grecian camp to ransom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The priest being refused , and infolently difmiffed by Agamemnon , intreats for vengeance from his God , who inflicts a peftilence ...
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... Grecian hearts to wound 3 Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound . Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll❜d about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the ...
... Grecian hearts to wound 3 Fierce as he mov'd , his filver fhafts refound . Breathing revenge , a sudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll❜d about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the ...
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... Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehenfive view The paft , the present , and the future knew : Uprising flow , the venerable fage Thus fpoke the prudence and the fears of age . Belov'd of Jove , Achilles ! would ...
... Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehenfive view The paft , the present , and the future knew : Uprising flow , the venerable fage Thus fpoke the prudence and the fears of age . Belov'd of Jove , Achilles ! would ...
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... Grecian state . Young as ye are , this youthful heat restrain , Nor think your Neftor's years and wisdom vain . A Godlike race of heroes once I knew , Such , as no more thefe aged eyes shall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ...
... Grecian state . Young as ye are , this youthful heat restrain , Nor think your Neftor's years and wisdom vain . A Godlike race of heroes once I knew , Such , as no more thefe aged eyes shall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ...
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?