The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... is my honour stain'd , Is Heaven offended , and a prieft profan'd ; Because my prize , my beauteous maid I hold , And heavenly charms prefer to proffer'd gold ? 135 140 A maid , A maid , unmatch'd in manners as in face ,
... is my honour stain'd , Is Heaven offended , and a prieft profan'd ; Because my prize , my beauteous maid I hold , And heavenly charms prefer to proffer'd gold ? 135 140 A maid , A maid , unmatch'd in manners as in face ,
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... prize , the beauteous prize , I will refign , So dearly valued , and fo juftly mine . 145 156 But fince for common good I yield the fair , My private lofs let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he ...
... prize , the beauteous prize , I will refign , So dearly valued , and fo juftly mine . 145 156 But fince for common good I yield the fair , My private lofs let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he ...
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... prize resign , Ulyffes ' spoils , or ev'n thy own be mine . The man who fuffers , loudly may complain ; And rage he may , but he shall rage in vain . But this when time requires - It now remains We launch a bark to plow the watery ...
... prize resign , Ulyffes ' spoils , or ev'n thy own be mine . The man who fuffers , loudly may complain ; And rage he may , but he shall rage in vain . But this when time requires - It now remains We launch a bark to plow the watery ...
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... prize away , Due to the deeds of many a dreadful day ? 205 210 A prize as fmall , O tyrant ! match'd with thine , 215 As thy own actions if compar'd to mine . Thine in each conqueft is the wealthy prey , Though mine the sweat and danger ...
... prize away , Due to the deeds of many a dreadful day ? 205 210 A prize as fmall , O tyrant ! match'd with thine , 215 As thy own actions if compar'd to mine . Thine in each conqueft is the wealthy prey , Though mine the sweat and danger ...
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... prize at equal rate 235 Thy fhort - liv'd friendship , and thy groundlefs hate . Go , threat thy earth - born Myrmidons ; but here ' Tis mine to threaten , prince , and thine to fear . 240 Know , if the God the beauteous dame demand ...
... prize at equal rate 235 Thy fhort - liv'd friendship , and thy groundlefs hate . Go , threat thy earth - born Myrmidons ; but here ' Tis mine to threaten , prince , and thine to fear . 240 Know , if the God the beauteous dame demand ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands bold brave breaſt chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcends Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhades 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 mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince Pylian race rage rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhield ſhining ſhips ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoil ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood ſtrong thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wound
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 13 - Thus his measures, instead of being fetters to his sense, were always in readiness to run along with the warmth of his rapture, and even to give a farther representation of his notions, in the correspondence of their sounds to what they signified.
Seite 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.
Seite 268 - But thou, O king, to council call the old; Great is thy sway, and weighty are thy cares; Thy high commands must spirit all our wars. With Thracian wines recruit thy honour'd guests, For happy counsels flow from sober feasts.
Seite 1 - Nature to more regularity, and such a figure, which the common eye may better take in, and is therefore more entertained with. And perhaps the reason why common...
Seite 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Seite 2 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Seite 30 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Seite 239 - Olympus' cloudy tops arise. The sire of gods his awful silence broke, 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...