The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 38H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... land ! May every joy be yours ! nor this the leaft , When due libation shall have crown'd the feaft , Safe to my home to fend your happy guest . 40 45 Complete Complete are now the bounties you have given , Be POPE'S HOMER .
... land ! May every joy be yours ! nor this the leaft , When due libation shall have crown'd the feaft , Safe to my home to fend your happy guest . 40 45 Complete Complete are now the bounties you have given , Be POPE'S HOMER .
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... land ! 55 60 His words , well weigh'd , the general voice approv'd Benign , and inftant his difmiffion mov'd . The monarch to Pontonous gave the sign , To fill the goblet high with rosy wine : Great Jove the Father firft ( he cried ) ...
... land ! 55 60 His words , well weigh'd , the general voice approv'd Benign , and inftant his difmiffion mov'd . The monarch to Pontonous gave the sign , To fill the goblet high with rosy wine : Great Jove the Father firft ( he cried ) ...
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... land ; 130 135 ( The crooked keel divides the yellow fand ) ; Ulyffes fleeping on his couch they bore , And gently plac'd him on the rocky fhore . His treasures next , Alcinous ' gifts , they laid In the wild olive's unfrequented fhade ...
... land ; 130 135 ( The crooked keel divides the yellow fand ) ; Ulyffes fleeping on his couch they bore , And gently plac'd him on the rocky fhore . His treasures next , Alcinous ' gifts , they laid In the wild olive's unfrequented fhade ...
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... land , Fix her for ever , a memorial stone : Still let her feem to fail , and seem alone ; The trembling crouds fhall fee the fudden fhade Of whelming mountains overhang their head ! 180 With that the God , whofe earthquakes rock the ...
... land , Fix her for ever , a memorial stone : Still let her feem to fail , and seem alone ; The trembling crouds fhall fee the fudden fhade Of whelming mountains overhang their head ! 180 With that the God , whofe earthquakes rock the ...
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... crimes afford An ample vengeance to their injur'd lord . Now all the land another prospect bore , Another port appear'd , another shore , 210 215 } 225 230 And And long - continued ways , and winding floods , 10 POPE'S HOMER .
... crimes afford An ample vengeance to their injur'd lord . Now all the land another prospect bore , Another port appear'd , another shore , 210 215 } 225 230 And And long - continued ways , and winding floods , 10 POPE'S HOMER .
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againſt Alcinous Amphinomus Antinous arms Atrides bleffing bleft breaſt caft cauſe coaft Crete cries cry'd death defcends divine dome dreadful Dulichium Eumæus Euryclea Eurymachus Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid faithful fame fate feaft feaſt fecret fhade fhall fhining fhore fhould fide fince fire firſt flain foft fome forrow foul fprings ftand ftill ftranger fuch fuitors fure fwain Goddeſs Gods grace gueft gueſt hafte hand heart Heaven hero Homer Iliad inftant Jove king Laertes laſt loft lord Medon Melanthius muſt native o'er Pallas peers Phemius plac'd pleafing pleaſe praiſe prince Pylos queen rage raiſe reft rejoin'd replies reply'd reſt rife royal ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpear ſpeed ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſwain taſk tears Telemachus thee thefe Theoclymenus theſe thofe thoſe thou train Ulyffes vafe veffel vengeance whofe whoſe woes wretch youth
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Page 275 - the latter, where we find not an antiquated, affefted, or uncouth word, for fome hundred lines together; as in his fifth book, the latter part of the eighth, the former of the tenth and eleventh books, and in the narration of Michael in the twelfth. I wonder indeed that he, who ventured (contrary to the
Page 103 - knew,, and ftrove to meet; In vain he ftrove to crawl, and kifs his feet; Yet (all he could) his tail, his ears, his eyes, Salute his mafter, and confefs his joys. Soft pity touch'd the mighty
Page 51 - in better days, by Helen wove : Safe in thy mother's care the vefture lay, 14.0 To deck thy bride, and grace thy nuptial day. Meantime may'ft thou with happieft fpeed regain Thy ftately palace, and thy wide domain. She faid, and gave the veil; with grateful look The prince the variegated
Page 269 - is ufmg a vaft force to lift a feather. I believe, now I am upon this head, it will be found a juft obfervation, That the low aftions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous ; but things natural can' Metaphors raif'e the latter into dignity, as we fee in the
Page 258 - on thy immortal brow. Thus when thy draughts, O Raphael! time invades, And the bold figure from the canvas fades, A rival hand recalls from every part Some latent grace, and equals art with art : Tranfported we furvey the dubious ftrife, While each fair image ftarts again to life. How long,
Page 264 - are ill invented, or ill executed. He affirms it to be nice and particular in painting the manners, but not that thofe manners are ill painted. If Homer has fully in thefe points accomplifhed his own defign, and done all that the nature of his poem demanded or allowed, it
Page 60 - thou (he cries) haft felt The fpite of fortune too ! her cruel hand 410 Snatch'd thee an infant from thy native land ! Snatch'd from thy parents' arms, thy parents' eyes, To early wants! a man of miferies ! Thy whole fad ftory, from its firft, declare : Sunk the fair city by the rage of war,
Page 42 - The morn confpicuous on her golden throne. 570 Oh, were my ftrength as then, as then my age! Some friend would fence me from the winter's rage. Yet, tatter'd as I look, I challeng'd then The honours and the offices of men : Some mafter, or fome fervant, would allow 575 A cloak and
Page 267 - find in each the fame vivacity and fecundity of invention, the fame life and ftrength of imaging and colouring, the particular defcriptions as highly painted, the figures as bold, the metaphors as animated, and the numbers as harmonious, and as various. The Odyfley is a perpetual fource of poetry: the
Page 284 - we have at leaft none of the blafphemers of Homer. We fteadfaftly and unanimoufly believe, both his poem, and our conftitution, to be the beft that ever human wit invented : that the one is not more incapable of amendment than the other; and (old as they both are) we