The Iliad of Homer, Band 1H. Baldwin, 1796 - 294 Seiten |
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... rise of frequent quarrels , whereby men were bred up in a rough untractable difpofition . Bodily strength met with the greatest honours , because it was daily neceffary to the fubfiftence of little governments , and that headlong ...
... rise of frequent quarrels , whereby men were bred up in a rough untractable difpofition . Bodily strength met with the greatest honours , because it was daily neceffary to the fubfiftence of little governments , and that headlong ...
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... rise to fight , And thus commands the vifion of the night . Fly hence , deluding dream ! and light as air , To Agamemnon's ample tent repair . 10 fages , in which the imperfections of men are affigned to the Gods . Upon which argument ...
... rise to fight , And thus commands the vifion of the night . Fly hence , deluding dream ! and light as air , To Agamemnon's ample tent repair . 10 fages , in which the imperfections of men are affigned to the Gods . Upon which argument ...
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... rise , E'er Priam's proftrate dome this arm destroy , And burn with hoftile flames the gates of Troy . Almighty thunderer , thy ftrength afford To cleave great Hector's corflet with my fword ! In duft let proftrate friends his corfe ...
... rise , E'er Priam's proftrate dome this arm destroy , And burn with hoftile flames the gates of Troy . Almighty thunderer , thy ftrength afford To cleave great Hector's corflet with my fword ! In duft let proftrate friends his corfe ...
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... rise , Blackening the fields , and thickening thro ' the skies . As State Poems , vol . ii . p . 2 . The numerous tribes refort to fee him land , Cover the beach , and blacken all the ftrand ; Our tranflator is very fond of this imagery ...
... rise , Blackening the fields , and thickening thro ' the skies . As State Poems , vol . ii . p . 2 . The numerous tribes refort to fee him land , Cover the beach , and blacken all the ftrand ; Our tranflator is very fond of this imagery ...
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Achilles Ægypt Æneid againſt Agamemnon alfo alſo anſwer Atrides beauty becauſe cauſe Chalcas Chapman chief compariſon Dacier defcribe defign deſcription Dryden edition Editor Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fceptre feems fhall fhews fhips fhore fimile firft firſt fome fpeech ftill fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks heroes himſelf Homer Homer fays honour Ibid Iliad itſelf Jove Jupiter juſt king laſt Leo Allatius loft maſter moft moſt muſt Neftor Nireus o'er obferved occafion Ogilby original paffage paffion Peneus perfons plain pleaſed pleaſure Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry pow'r praiſe prefent preferved prieſt Pteleon Quintilian raiſed reader reaſon refpect repreſented rhymes rife ſays ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhips ſhore ſhould ſkies ſpeak ſpirit ſpoke ſtate ſtill ſtory Strab Suidas thefe themſelves theſe Thetis thofe thoſe thou thouſand tranflator Travers Trojan Troy Ulyffes uſed verfe verfion verſe Virgil whofe whoſe words καὶ
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Seite lxviii - 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.
Seite xxxii - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Seite xvii - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Seite lxvi - ... terms as I cannot repeat without vanity. I was obliged to Sir Richard Steele for a very early recommendation of my undertaking to the publick.
Seite lix - In a word, the nature of the man may account for his whole performance ; for he appears, from his preface and remarks, to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry.
Seite lxix - All you need do (says he) is to leave them just as they are ; call on Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observations on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him much...
Seite iv - ... through an uniform and bounded walk of art, than to comprehend the vast and various extent of nature.
Seite lx - 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 ix - Statius it bursts out in sudden, short, and interrupted flashes: in Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardour by the force of art: in Shakespeare it strikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven: but in Homer, and in him only, it burns everywhere clearly and everywhere irresistibly.
Seite xvi - ... in the poetic, that mankind have been ever since contented to follow them : none have been able to enlarge the...