The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerSamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... grace which would be utterly loft by endeavouring to give them what we call a more ingenious ( that is , a more modern ) turn in the paraphrase . Perhaps the mixture of fome Græcisms and old words after the manner of Milton , if done ...
... grace which would be utterly loft by endeavouring to give them what we call a more ingenious ( that is , a more modern ) turn in the paraphrase . Perhaps the mixture of fome Græcisms and old words after the manner of Milton , if done ...
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... encouragers ? Among these it is a particular pleasure to me to find , that my highest obligations are to fuch who have done most honour to the name of poet ; that his grace the duke of Buckingham was not displeased I his 32 PREFACE .
... encouragers ? Among these it is a particular pleasure to me to find , that my highest obligations are to fuch who have done most honour to the name of poet ; that his grace the duke of Buckingham was not displeased I his 32 PREFACE .
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Samuel Johnson. his grace the duke of Buckingham was not displeased I fhould undertake the Author to whom he has given ( in his excellent Effay ) fo complete a praise : " Read Homer once , and you can read no more ; " For all Books elfe ...
Samuel Johnson. his grace the duke of Buckingham was not displeased I fhould undertake the Author to whom he has given ( in his excellent Effay ) fo complete a praise : " Read Homer once , and you can read no more ; " For all Books elfe ...
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... grace his hands : By these he begs ; and lowly bending down , Extends the fceptre and the laurel crown . D3 C IS He He fued to all , but chief implor'd for grace [ 37 ]
... grace his hands : By these he begs ; and lowly bending down , Extends the fceptre and the laurel crown . D3 C IS He He fued to all , but chief implor'd for grace [ 37 ]
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... grace , And age difmifs her from my cold embrace , In daily labours of the loom employ'd , Or doom'd to deck the bed fhe once enjoy'd . Hence then , to Argos fhall the maid retire , Far from her native foil , and weeping fire . The ...
... grace , And age difmifs her from my cold embrace , In daily labours of the loom employ'd , Or doom'd to deck the bed fhe once enjoy'd . Hence then , to Argos fhall the maid retire , Far from her native foil , and weeping fire . The ...
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles againſt Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands beneath bold brave breaſt cauſe chariot chief counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcending Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhall fhining fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filent filver fire firft firſt fix'd flain flames flew fome foul fpear ftand fteeds ftill ftrength ftrong fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hafte hand Heaven Hector heroes himſelf hoft Homer honours hoſt Idomeneus immortal javelin Jove king lance laſt Lycian Menelaus mighty monarch moſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince Pylian race rage reft rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhare ſhips ſhore Simoïs ſkies ſpoils ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood Teucer thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wound
Pasajes populares
Página 195 - 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.
Página 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...
Página 208 - My soul impels me to the embattled plains! Let me be foremost to defend the throne, 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.
Página 15 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Página 132 - Apollo's altars in his native town. Now with full force the yielding horn he bends, Drawn to an arch, and joins the doubling ends ; (.'lose to his breast he strains the nerve below, Till the barb'd point approach the circling bow ; The impatient weapon whizzes on the wing ; Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string.
Página 26 - far-shooting," is capable of two explications, one literal in respect of the darts and bow, the ensigns of that god, the other allegorical with regard to the rays of the sun; therefore in such places where Apollo is represented as a god in person, I would use the former interpretation, and where the effects of the sun are described, I would make choice of the latter.
Página 14 - Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their merit upon the whole.
Página 33 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Página 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Página 5 - ... of both Homer's poems into one, which is yet but a fourth part as large as his. The other epic poets have...