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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... deaths , that no two heroes are wounded in the fame manner ; and 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 ...
... deaths , that no two heroes are wounded in the fame manner ; and 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 ...
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... death , when I reflect on the enjoyment of fo many agreeable obliga- tions , and easy friendships , which make the fatisfaction of life . This diftinction is the more to be acknow- ledged , as it is fhewn to one whose pen has never gra ...
... death , when I reflect on the enjoyment of fo many agreeable obliga- tions , and easy friendships , which make the fatisfaction of life . This diftinction is the more to be acknow- ledged , as it is fhewn to one whose pen has never gra ...
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... death Achilles fhall remain , Though proftrate Greece fhould bleed at every vein : 445 The raging chief in frantic paffion loft , Blind to himself , and useless to his hoft , Unfkill'd to judge the future by the past , In blood and ...
... death Achilles fhall remain , Though proftrate Greece fhould bleed at every vein : 445 The raging chief in frantic paffion loft , Blind to himself , and useless to his hoft , Unfkill'd to judge the future by the past , In blood and ...
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... death , and bring The Greeks to know the curfe of fuch a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O'er all his wide dominion of the dead , And mourn in blood , that e'er he durft disgrace The boldest warriour of the Grecian race . 530 ...
... death , and bring The Greeks to know the curfe of fuch a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O'er all his wide dominion of the dead , And mourn in blood , that e'er he durft disgrace The boldest warriour of the Grecian race . 530 ...
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... death , shall cover all : Let the war bleed , and let the mighty fall ! ' Till bath'd in sweat be every manly breast , With the huge shield each brawny arm depreft , Each aching nerve refuse the lance to throw , And each spent courser ...
... death , shall cover all : Let the war bleed , and let the mighty fall ! ' Till bath'd in sweat be every manly breast , With the huge shield each brawny arm depreft , Each aching nerve refuse the lance to throw , And each spent courser ...
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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 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.
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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?