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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... fall . The prize , the beauteous prize , I will refign , So dearly valued , and so justly mine . 145 150 But fince for common good I yield the fair , My private lofs let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain ...
... fall . The prize , the beauteous prize , I will refign , So dearly valued , and so justly mine . 145 150 But fince for common good I yield the fair , My private lofs let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain ...
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... No laws can limit , no refpect control . Before his pride muft his fuperiours fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? } 366 365 370 375 VOL . I. E Him Him must our hosts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ILIAD , BOOK I.
... No laws can limit , no refpect control . Before his pride muft his fuperiours fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? } 366 365 370 375 VOL . I. E Him Him must our hosts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ILIAD , BOOK I.
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... fall , by too fevere a doom ; Sure , to fo fhort a race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn : Honour and fame at least the Thunderer ow'd , And ill he pays the promise of a God ; If yon proud monarch thus thy ...
... fall , by too fevere a doom ; Sure , to fo fhort a race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn : Honour and fame at least the Thunderer ow'd , And ill he pays the promise of a God ; If yon proud monarch thus thy ...
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... fall ; Conjure him far to drive the Grecian train , To hurl them headlong to their fleet and main , To heap the fhores with copious death , and bring The Greeks to know the curfe of fuch a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O'er ...
... fall ; Conjure him far to drive the Grecian train , To hurl them headlong to their fleet and main , To heap the fhores with copious death , and bring The Greeks to know the curfe of fuch a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O'er ...
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... fall . Swift as the word the vain illusion fled , Defcends , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ; Cloath'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wisdom , and rever'd for age ; F 2 5 10 35 . 20 Around . ; 30 1 . Around his temples ...
... fall . Swift as the word the vain illusion fled , Defcends , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ; Cloath'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wisdom , and rever'd for age ; F 2 5 10 35 . 20 Around . ; 30 1 . Around his temples ...
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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.
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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!
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