The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Tydeus , Hippomedon , & c . They have a pari- ty of character , which makes them feem brothers of one family . I believe when the reader is led into this track of reflection , if he will purfue it through the Epic and Tragic writers ...
... Tydeus , Hippomedon , & c . They have a pari- ty of character , which makes them feem brothers of one family . I believe when the reader is led into this track of reflection , if he will purfue it through the Epic and Tragic writers ...
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... Tydeus ' son , Ajax the lefs , and Ajax Telamon ; Then wife Ulyffes in his rank was plac'd ; 475 480 And Menelaus came unbid , the last . 485 The chiefs furround the destin'd beaft , and take The facred offering of the falted cake ...
... Tydeus ' son , Ajax the lefs , and Ajax Telamon ; Then wife Ulyffes in his rank was plac'd ; 475 480 And Menelaus came unbid , the last . 485 The chiefs furround the destin'd beaft , and take The facred offering of the falted cake ...
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... Tydeus ! ( he , whose strength could tame The bounding steed , in arms a mighty name ) Can't thou , remote , the mingling hosts descry , With hands unactive , and a careless eye ? Not thus thy fire the fierce encounter fear'd ; Still ...
... Tydeus ! ( he , whose strength could tame The bounding steed , in arms a mighty name ) Can't thou , remote , the mingling hosts descry , With hands unactive , and a careless eye ? Not thus thy fire the fierce encounter fear'd ; Still ...
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... Tydeus was , and fuch his martial fire . Gods ! how the fon degenerates from the fire ! No words the godlike Diomed return'd , But heard respectful , and in fecret burn'd . Not fo fierce Capaneus ' undaunted fon , Stern as his fire ...
... Tydeus was , and fuch his martial fire . Gods ! how the fon degenerates from the fire ! No words the godlike Diomed return'd , But heard respectful , and in fecret burn'd . Not fo fierce Capaneus ' undaunted fon , Stern as his fire ...
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... Tydeus ' and Atreus ' fons their points have found , And undiffembled gore purfued the wound . In vain they bled : this unavailing bow Serves , not to flaughter , but provoke the foe . In In evil hour these bended horns I ftrung , And ...
... Tydeus ' and Atreus ' fons their points have found , And undiffembled gore purfued the wound . In vain they bled : this unavailing bow Serves , not to flaughter , but provoke the foe . In In evil hour these bended horns I ftrung , And ...
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands bold brave breaſt chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcends Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhades 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 mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince Pylian race rage rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhield ſhining ſhips ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoil ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood ſtrong thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wound
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Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...