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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... these as they had a greater mixture of vowels and con- fonants , and accordingly employed them as the verse re- quired either a greater fimoothnefs or ftrength . What he most affected was the Ionic , which has a peculiar fweetness from ...
... these as they had a greater mixture of vowels and con- fonants , and accordingly employed them as the verse re- quired either a greater fimoothnefs or ftrength . What he most affected was the Ionic , which has a peculiar fweetness from ...
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... these heads , I have no way derogated from his character . Nothing is more abfurd or endless , than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particu- lar paffages in them , and forming a judgment from thence of ...
... these heads , I have no way derogated from his character . Nothing is more abfurd or endless , than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particu- lar paffages in them , and forming a judgment from thence of ...
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... these great Authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides , and are only said to have lefs in comparison with one another . Homer was the greater genius , Virgil the better artift . In one we moft admire the man , in the other ...
... these great Authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides , and are only said to have lefs in comparison with one another . Homer was the greater genius , Virgil the better artift . In one we moft admire the man , in the other ...
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... these we may reckon fome of his Marvellous Fictions , upon which fo much criticism has been spent , as furpaffing all the bounds of probability . Perhaps it may be with great and fuperior fouls , as with gigantic bodies , which ...
... these we may reckon fome of his Marvellous Fictions , upon which fo much criticism has been spent , as furpaffing all the bounds of probability . Perhaps it may be with great and fuperior fouls , as with gigantic bodies , which ...
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... these in mo- dern times , such as the names of Harold Harefoot , Edmund Ironfide , Edward Long - shanks , Edward the Black Prince , & c . If yet this be thought to account better for the propriety than for the repetition , I fhall add a ...
... these in mo- dern times , such as the names of Harold Harefoot , Edmund Ironfide , Edward Long - shanks , Edward the Black Prince , & c . If yet this be thought to account better for the propriety than for the repetition , I fhall add a ...
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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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
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!
Page 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
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?