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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... stood'st a rival of imperial power ; And hence to all our hoft it shall be known , That kings are fubject to the Gods alone . 250 Achilles heard , with grief and rage oppreft , His heart fwell'd high , and labour'd in his breast ...
... stood'st a rival of imperial power ; And hence to all our hoft it shall be known , That kings are fubject to the Gods alone . 250 Achilles heard , with grief and rage oppreft , His heart fwell'd high , and labour'd in his breast ...
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... stood , and by the golden hair Achilles feiz'd ; to him alone confeft ; A fable cloud conceal'd her from the reft . He fees , and fudden to the goddess cries , Known by the flames that sparkle from her eyes . Defcends Minerva in her ...
... stood , and by the golden hair Achilles feiz'd ; to him alone confeft ; A fable cloud conceal'd her from the reft . He fees , and fudden to the goddess cries , Known by the flames that sparkle from her eyes . Defcends Minerva in her ...
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... stood , Talthybius and Eurybates the good . Hafte to the fierce Achilles ' tent ( he cries ) Thence bear Brifeïs as our royal prize : Submit he muft ; or , if they will not part , 415 420 Ourself in arms fhall tear her from his heart ...
... stood , Talthybius and Eurybates the good . Hafte to the fierce Achilles ' tent ( he cries ) Thence bear Brifeïs as our royal prize : Submit he muft ; or , if they will not part , 415 420 Ourself in arms fhall tear her from his heart ...
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... There , far apart , and high above the rest , The Thunderer fat ; where old Olympus shrouds His hundred heads in heaven , and props the clouds . Suppliant Suppliant the Goddess stood : one hand fhe plac'd 650 58 POPE'S HOMER .
... There , far apart , and high above the rest , The Thunderer fat ; where old Olympus shrouds His hundred heads in heaven , and props the clouds . Suppliant Suppliant the Goddess stood : one hand fhe plac'd 650 58 POPE'S HOMER .
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Samuel Johnson. Suppliant the Goddess stood : one hand fhe plac'd 650 Beneath his beard , and one his knee embrac'd : If e'er , O Father of the Gods ! she said , My words could please thee , or my actions aid ; Some marks of honour on my ...
Samuel Johnson. Suppliant the Goddess stood : one hand fhe plac'd 650 Beneath his beard , and one his knee embrac'd : If e'er , O Father of the Gods ! she said , My words could please thee , or my actions aid ; Some marks of honour on my ...
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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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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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!
Էջ 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Էջ 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?