The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's Homer. The OdysseyH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... especially the machines of the Gods . He feems the first who brought them into a system of ma- chinery for poetry , and such a one as makes its greatest importance and dignity . For we find thofe authors who impor- 6 PREFACE .
... especially the machines of the Gods . He feems the first who brought them into a system of ma- chinery for poetry , and such a one as makes its greatest importance and dignity . For we find thofe authors who impor- 6 PREFACE .
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... such length , how small a number of line are employed in narration . In Virgil the dramatic part is lefs in proportion to the narrative ; and the speeches often confist of general reflections or thoughts , which might be equally just in ...
... such length , how small a number of line are employed in narration . In Virgil the dramatic part is lefs in proportion to the narrative ; and the speeches often confist of general reflections or thoughts , which might be equally just in ...
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... such a profusion of noble ideas , that every battle rifes above the laft in : greatness , horror , and confusion . It is certain there is not near that number of images and descriptions in any Epic Poet ; though every one has affifted ...
... such a profusion of noble ideas , that every battle rifes above the laft in : greatness , horror , and confusion . It is certain there is not near that number of images and descriptions in any Epic Poet ; though every one has affifted ...
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... Such are his groffer reprefentations of the Gods , and the vicious and imperfect manners of his He- roes ; but I must here speak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carried into extremes , both by the cen- furers and ...
... Such are his groffer reprefentations of the Gods , and the vicious and imperfect manners of his He- roes ; but I must here speak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carried into extremes , both by the cen- furers and ...
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... 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 farther conjecture ...
... 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 farther conjecture ...
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles againſt Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands beneath bold brave breaſt chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcend Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent 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 maid Menelaus mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince proud Pylian race rage rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhield ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoils ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wiſdom wound
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Página 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.
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 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...
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 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...
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 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.
Página 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!
Página 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
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?