The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's Homer. The OdysseyH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... blood of an enemy , and the like . Yet his expreffion is never too big for the fenfe , but juftly great in proportion to it . It is the fentiment that fwells and fills out the diction , which rises with it , and forms it- felf about it ...
... blood of an enemy , and the like . Yet his expreffion is never too big for the fenfe , but juftly great in proportion to it . It is the fentiment that fwells and fills out the diction , which rises with it , and forms it- felf about it ...
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... blood , where the latter has not so much as contrived the eafy intervention of a Deity to fave the probability . It is owing to the fame vaft invention , that his fimiles have been thought too exuberant and full of circum- ftances . The ...
... blood , where the latter has not so much as contrived the eafy intervention of a Deity to fave the probability . It is owing to the fame vaft invention , that his fimiles have been thought too exuberant and full of circum- ftances . The ...
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... blood and toils deserve ; Difgrac'd and injur'd by the man we serve ? And dar'st thou threat to snatch my prize away , Due to the deeds of many a dreadful day ? 205 210 A prize as fmall , O tyrant ! match'd with thine , 215 As thy own ...
... blood and toils deserve ; Difgrac'd and injur'd by the man we serve ? And dar'st thou threat to snatch my prize away , Due to the deeds of many a dreadful day ? 205 210 A prize as fmall , O tyrant ! match'd with thine , 215 As thy own ...
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... blood , when next thou dar'st invade , Shall stream in vengeance on my reeking blade . At this they ceas'd ; the stern debate expir'd : The chiefs in fullen majesty retir'd . Achilles with Patroclus took his way , 390 395 400 Where near ...
... blood , when next thou dar'st invade , Shall stream in vengeance on my reeking blade . At this they ceas'd ; the stern debate expir'd : The chiefs in fullen majesty retir'd . Achilles with Patroclus took his way , 390 395 400 Where near ...
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... blood and flaughter fhall repent at last . Patroclus now th ' unwilling beauty brought ; 450 She , in foft forrows , and in penfive thought , Paft filent , as the heralds held her hand , And oft look'd back , flow moving o'er the ftrand ...
... blood and flaughter fhall repent at last . Patroclus now th ' unwilling beauty brought ; 450 She , in foft forrows , and in penfive thought , Paft filent , as the heralds held her hand , And oft look'd back , flow moving o'er the ftrand ...
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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
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Page 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.
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
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Page 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?