The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... deaths , that no two heroes are wounded in the fame manner ; and fuch a profufion of noble ideas , that every battle rifes above the last in greatnefs , horror , and confufion . It is certain there is not near that number of images and ...
... deaths , that no two heroes are wounded in the fame manner ; and fuch a profufion of noble ideas , that every battle rifes above the last in greatnefs , horror , and confufion . It is certain there is not near that number of images and ...
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... death Achilles fhall remain , Though proftrate Greece fhould bleed at every vein : 445 The raging chief in frantic paffion lost , Blind to himself , and useless to his host , Unskill'd to judge the future by the past , In blood and ...
... death Achilles fhall remain , Though proftrate Greece fhould bleed at every vein : 445 The raging chief in frantic paffion lost , Blind to himself , and useless to his host , Unskill'd to judge the future by the past , In blood and ...
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... death , and bring The Greeks to know the curfe of fuch a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O'er all his wide dominion of the dead , . And mourn in blood , that e'er he durft disgrace The boldest warriour of the Grecian race ...
... death , and bring The Greeks to know the curfe of fuch a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O'er all his wide dominion of the dead , . And mourn in blood , that e'er he durft disgrace The boldest warriour of the Grecian race ...
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... death , shall cover all : Let the war bleed , and let the mighty fall ! Till bath'd in sweat be every manly breast , With the huge shield each brawny arm depreft , Each aching nerve refuse the lance to throw , And each spent courfer at ...
... death , shall cover all : Let the war bleed , and let the mighty fall ! Till bath'd in sweat be every manly breast , With the huge shield each brawny arm depreft , Each aching nerve refuse the lance to throw , And each spent courfer at ...
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... death they whirl the rapid car , And break the ranks , and thunder through the war . Ajax in arms the first renown acquir'd , While ftern Achilles in his wrath retir'd 930 935 940 ( His was the strength that mortal might exceeds , And ...
... death they whirl the rapid car , And break the ranks , and thunder through the war . Ajax in arms the first renown acquir'd , While ftern Achilles in his wrath retir'd 930 935 940 ( His was the strength that mortal might exceeds , And ...
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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?
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 13 - Thus his measures, instead of being fetters to his sense, were always in readiness to run along with the warmth of his rapture, and even to give a farther representation of his notions, in the correspondence of their sounds to what they signified.
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 268 - But thou, O king, to council call the old; Great is thy sway, and weighty are thy cares; Thy high commands must spirit all our wars. With Thracian wines recruit thy honour'd guests, For happy counsels flow from sober feasts.
Page 1 - Nature to more regularity, and such a figure, which the common eye may better take in, and is therefore more entertained with. And perhaps the reason why common...
Page 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Page 2 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Page 30 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Page 239 - Olympus' cloudy tops arise. The sire of gods his awful silence broke, 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...