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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... full profpects of things , but several unex- pected peculiarities and side - views , unobserved by any painter but Homer . Nothing is fo furprizing as the defcriptions of his battles , which take up no less than half the Iliad , and are ...
... full profpects of things , but several unex- pected peculiarities and side - views , unobserved by any painter but Homer . Nothing is fo furprizing as the defcriptions of his battles , which take up no less than half the Iliad , and are ...
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... full : while we are borne away by a tide of verfe , the most ra . pid , and yet the most smooth imaginable . Thus , on whatever fide we contemplate Homer , what principally ftrikes us is his Invention . It is that which forms the ...
... full : while we are borne away by a tide of verfe , the most ra . pid , and yet the most smooth imaginable . Thus , on whatever fide we contemplate Homer , what principally ftrikes us is his Invention . It is that which forms the ...
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... full of circum- ftances . The force of this faculty is feen in nothing more , than in its inability to confine itself to that fingle circumftance upon which the comparison is grounded : it runs out into embellishments of additional ...
... full of circum- ftances . The force of this faculty is feen in nothing more , than in its inability to confine itself to that fingle circumftance upon which the comparison is grounded : it runs out into embellishments of additional ...
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... full image by one or two words , may have juftice done them by circumlocution ; as the epithet sinipunnos to a mountain , would appear little or ridiculous tranf- lated literally " leaf - fhaking , " but affords a majestic idea in the ...
... full image by one or two words , may have juftice done them by circumlocution ; as the epithet sinipunnos to a mountain , would appear little or ridiculous tranf- lated literally " leaf - fhaking , " but affords a majestic idea in the ...
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... Full on the fire the Goddess of the skies Roll'd the large orbs of her majestic eyes , And thus return'd : Auftere Saturnius , fay From whence this wrath , or who controls thy fway ? 715 Thy boundless will , for me remains , in force ...
... Full on the fire the Goddess of the skies Roll'd the large orbs of her majestic eyes , And thus return'd : Auftere Saturnius , fay From whence this wrath , or who controls thy fway ? 715 Thy boundless will , for me remains , in force ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Page 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?