The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... wound ; Fierce as he mov'd , his filver shafts refound . Breathing revenge , a fudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the feather'd fates ...
... wound ; Fierce as he mov'd , his filver shafts refound . Breathing revenge , a fudden night he spread , And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head . The fleet in view , he twang'd his deadly bow , And hiffing fly the feather'd fates ...
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... wounds of war . But know , proud monarch , I'm thy flave no more ; My fleet fhall waft me to Theffalia's fhore .. Left by Achilles on the Trojan plain , What spoils , what conquests , shall Atrides gain ? To this the king : Fly , mighty ...
... wounds of war . But know , proud monarch , I'm thy flave no more ; My fleet fhall waft me to Theffalia's fhore .. Left by Achilles on the Trojan plain , What spoils , what conquests , shall Atrides gain ? To this the king : Fly , mighty ...
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... wound . At this , the fire embrac'd the maid again , 565 570 575 580 So fadly loft , fo lately fought in vain . Then near the altar of the darting king , Difpos'd in rank their hecatomb they bring : 585 With water purify their hands ...
... wound . At this , the fire embrac'd the maid again , 565 570 575 580 So fadly loft , fo lately fought in vain . Then near the altar of the darting king , Difpos'd in rank their hecatomb they bring : 585 With water purify their hands ...
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... wound ; There groan'd the chief in agonizing pain , 870 875 880 Whom Greece at length shall wish , nor wish in vain . His forces Medon led from Lemnos ' fhore , Oïleus ' fon , whom beauteous Rhena bore . Th ' Oechalian race , in those ...
... wound ; There groan'd the chief in agonizing pain , 870 875 880 Whom Greece at length shall wish , nor wish in vain . His forces Medon led from Lemnos ' fhore , Oïleus ' fon , whom beauteous Rhena bore . Th ' Oechalian race , in those ...
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... wounds and death they bring , And all the war defcends upon the wing . But filent , breathing rage , refolv'd and skill'd By mutual aids to fix a doubtful field , Swift march the Greeks : the rapid dust around Darkening arifes from the ...
... wounds and death they bring , And all the war defcends upon the wing . But filent , breathing rage , refolv'd and skill'd By mutual aids to fix a doubtful field , Swift march the Greeks : the rapid dust around Darkening arifes from the ...
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...