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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... field in which no fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer ; and whatever commenda- tions have been allowed them on this head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having ...
... field in which no fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer ; and whatever commenda- tions have been allowed them on this head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having ...
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... field ? The spoils of cities raz'd , and warriours flain , We share with juftice , as with toil we gain : But to refume whate'er thy avarice craves , ( That trick of tyrants ) may be borne by faves . Yet if our chief for plunder only ...
... field ? The spoils of cities raz'd , and warriours flain , We share with juftice , as with toil we gain : But to refume whate'er thy avarice craves , ( That trick of tyrants ) may be borne by faves . Yet if our chief for plunder only ...
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... field , nor mingle in the war . The fire of Gods and all th ' æthereal train , On the warm limits of the farthest main , Now mix with mortals , nor difdain to grace The feasts of Æthiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers ...
... field , nor mingle in the war . The fire of Gods and all th ' æthereal train , On the warm limits of the farthest main , Now mix with mortals , nor difdain to grace The feasts of Æthiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers ...
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... field the moving host appears , With nodding plumes , and groves of waving spears . The gathering murmur fpreads , their trampling feet Beat the loofe fands , and thicken to the fleet . With long - refounding cries they urge the train ...
... field the moving host appears , With nodding plumes , and groves of waving spears . The gathering murmur fpreads , their trampling feet Beat the loofe fands , and thicken to the fleet . With long - refounding cries they urge the train ...
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... field ? Ye Gods , what daftards would our hoft command , Swept to the war , the lumber of a land ! Be filent , wretch , and think not here allow'd That worst of tyrants , an ufurping crowd : To one fole monarch Jove commits the sway ...
... field ? Ye Gods , what daftards would our hoft command , Swept to the war , the lumber of a land ! Be filent , wretch , and think not here allow'd That worst of tyrants , an ufurping crowd : To one fole monarch Jove commits the sway ...
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?