The Iliads of Homer, done [into Engl. verse] by G. Chapman, with intr. and notes by R. Hooper, Band 11857 |
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... stood the test of ages , and which , having done good service in their day , are now undeservedly laid aside , and sought after only by the scholar and the philologer , or , may be , the curious , yet to every true lover of his native ...
... stood the test of ages , and which , having done good service in their day , are now undeservedly laid aside , and sought after only by the scholar and the philologer , or , may be , the curious , yet to every true lover of his native ...
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... divine strains of his pen , * The lines begin , — nam Demodoci vivacior ævo Obstrepuit , prorsusque parem confessus Apollo est . " 15 20 20 25 30 30 335 40 He stood amaz'd and freely did confess Himself was equall'd liv TO THE READER .
... divine strains of his pen , * The lines begin , — nam Demodoci vivacior ævo Obstrepuit , prorsusque parem confessus Apollo est . " 15 20 20 25 30 30 335 40 He stood amaz'd and freely did confess Himself was equall'd liv TO THE READER .
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Homerus Richard Hooper. He stood amaz'd and freely did confess Himself was equall'd in Mæonides . Next hear the grave and learned Pliny use His censure of our sacred poet's muse . Plin . Nat . Hist . lib . 7. cap . 29 . Turned into verse ...
Homerus Richard Hooper. He stood amaz'd and freely did confess Himself was equall'd in Mæonides . Next hear the grave and learned Pliny use His censure of our sacred poet's muse . Plin . Nat . Hist . lib . 7. cap . 29 . Turned into verse ...
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... stood Homer , as he was in his age , thoughtful and musing , his hands folded beneath his bosom , his beard . untrimmed and hanging down , the hair of his head in like sort thin on both sides before , his face with age and cares of the ...
... stood Homer , as he was in his age , thoughtful and musing , his hands folded beneath his bosom , his beard . untrimmed and hanging down , the hair of his head in like sort thin on both sides before , his face with age and cares of the ...
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... stood in the temple of Ptolemy , on the upper hand of his own statue . Cedrenus likewise remembereth a library in the palace of the king , at Constantinople , that contained a thousand a hundred and twenty books , amongst which there ...
... stood in the temple of Ptolemy , on the upper hand of his own statue . Cedrenus likewise remembereth a library in the palace of the king , at Constantinople , that contained a thousand a hundred and twenty books , amongst which there ...
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The Iliads of Homer, Done [Into Engl. Verse] by G. Chapman, with Intr. and ... Homerus Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
The Iliads of Homer, Done [Into Engl. Verse] by G. Chapman, with Intr. and ... Homerus Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Ajax amongst arms Atrides bear blood bold BOOK brave breast bring brought cast Chapman charge chariot command counsels darts death Diomed divine doth earth edition eyes fair fall fate father fear fell field fight fire fleet folio force friends gave give given Gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks hand haste hath head hear heart heaven Hector held hold Homer honour horse host Jove king lance leave light lives mighty mind never night original present princes rest rich round sacred says sent shield ships sire soldiers sons spake spirit stand stood strength strong sweet thee things thou thought took town translation Trojans Troy true turn Ulysses wall worth wound
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Seite xix - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise: Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite xix - FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. " Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been, Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Seite xvii - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses rewritten.
Seite 151 - The spirit I first did breathe Did never teach me that; much less, since the contempt of death Was settled in me, and my mind knew what a worthy was, Whose office is to lead, in fight, and give no danger pass Without improvement. In this fire must Hector's trial shine: Here must his country, father, friends, be in him made divine.
Seite 23 - Though truth in her very nakedness sits in so deep a pit, that from Gades to Aurora and Ganges few eyes can sound her, I hope yet those few here will so discover and confirm that, the date being out of her darkness in this morning of our poet, he shall now gird his temples with the sun," — we pronounce that such a prose is intolerable.