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... give a tincture of that principal one . For example : the main characters of Ulysses and Nestor consist in wisdom ; and they are distinct in this , that the wisdom of one is artificial and various , of the other natural , open , and ...
... give a tincture of that principal one . For example : the main characters of Ulysses and Nestor consist in wisdom ; and they are distinct in this , that the wisdom of one is artificial and various , of the other natural , open , and ...
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... gives us the full prospects of things , but several unexpected peculiarities and side - views , unobserved by any painter but Homer . Nothing is so sur prising as the descriptions of his battles ; which take up no less than half the ...
... gives us the full prospects of things , but several unexpected peculiarities and side - views , unobserved by any painter but Homer . Nothing is so sur prising as the descriptions of his battles ; which take up no less than half the ...
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... give a further repre- sentation of his notions , in the correspondence of their sounds to what they signified . Out of all these he has derived that harmony , which makes us confess he had not only the richest head , but the finest ear ...
... give a further repre- sentation of his notions , in the correspondence of their sounds to what they signified . Out of all these he has derived that harmony , which makes us confess he had not only the richest head , but the finest ear ...
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... give it a more regular appearance . Having now spoken of the beauties and defects of the ori- ginal , it remains to treat of the translation , with the same view to the chief characteristic . As far as that is seen in the main parts of ...
... give it a more regular appearance . Having now spoken of the beauties and defects of the ori- ginal , it remains to treat of the translation , with the same view to the chief characteristic . As far as that is seen in the main parts of ...
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... give in to several of those general phrases and manners of expression , which have attained a veneration even in our language from being used in the Old Testament ; as , on the other , to avoid those which have been appropriated to the ...
... give in to several of those general phrases and manners of expression , which have attained a veneration even in our language from being used in the Old Testament ; as , on the other , to avoid those which have been appropriated to the ...
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Achilles Agamemnon Ajax arms Atreus Atrides bands battle beauteous behold bend beneath blood bold brave brazen breast chariot chief combat command coursers crown'd daring dart descends Diomed dire divine dreadful E'en Epeians Eurypylus eyes fair falchion fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames fleet force fury glory goddess godlike gods gore grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste hear heart Heaven heavenly Hector heroes Homer honours host Idomeneus Iliad Ilion's immortal javelin Jove king lance Lycian maid martial mighty monarch Nestor night numbers o'er Pallas Pandarus pass'd Patroclus Phrygian pierced plain press'd Priam's prince prize proud Pylian race rage sacred shade shield shining ships shore Simoïs sire skies slain soul spear spoke stand steeds stern Sthenelus stood swift tent thee thou throne thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Troy's Tydeus Tydides Ulysses Virgil walls warrior woes wound youth
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Page 167 - And guard my father's glories and my own. Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates, (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates !) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Page 168 - Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age ! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, " This chief transcends his father's fame While pleased, amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart o'erflows with joy.
Page 278 - A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Page 22 - Declare, O Muse ! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife ; from what offended power? Latona's son a dire contagion spread, And heap'd the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverend priest defied And for the king's offence the people died.
Page 233 - Yet hear one word, and lodge it in thy heart: No more molest me on Atrides' part. Is it for him these tears are taught to flow, For him these sorrows ? for my mortal foe ? A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows : One should our interests and our passions be ; My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Page 38 - The sire of gods, and all th' ethereal train, On the warm limits of the farthest main, Now mix with mortals, nor disdain to grace The feasts of Ethiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers indulge the genial rite, Returning with the twelfth revolving light. Then will I mount the brazen dome, and move The high tribunal of immortal Jove.
Page 4 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person ; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Page 22 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Page 27 - Such as a king might ask ; and let it be A treasure worthy her and worthy me. Or grant me this, or with a monarch's claim This hand shall seize some other captive dame. The mighty Ajax shall his prize resign, Ulysses' spoils, or e'en thy own be mine.
Page 3 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.