The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... arms again ; If mercy fail , yet let my presents move , And dread avenging Phoebus , son of Jove . The Greeks in shouts their joint affent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair . Not fo Atrides : he , with kingly ...
... arms again ; If mercy fail , yet let my presents move , And dread avenging Phoebus , son of Jove . The Greeks in shouts their joint affent declare , The priest to reverence , and release the fair . Not fo Atrides : he , with kingly ...
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... arms fhall tear her from his heart . 425 Th ' unwilling heralds act their lord's commands ; Penfive they walk along the barren sands : Arriv'd , the Hero in his tent they find , With gloomy afpect , on his arm reclin'd . At awful ...
... arms fhall tear her from his heart . 425 Th ' unwilling heralds act their lord's commands ; Penfive they walk along the barren sands : Arriv'd , the Hero in his tent they find , With gloomy afpect , on his arm reclin'd . At awful ...
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... arms , Defrauds the votes of all the Grecian train ; And fervice , faith , and justice , plead in vain . But , Goddefs ! thou thy fuppliant fon attend , To high Olympus ' fhining court ascend , Urge all the ties to former fervice ow'd ...
... arms , Defrauds the votes of all the Grecian train ; And fervice , faith , and justice , plead in vain . But , Goddefs ! thou thy fuppliant fon attend , To high Olympus ' fhining court ascend , Urge all the ties to former fervice ow'd ...
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... hands , and take The facred offering of the falted cake ; While thus with arms devoutly rais'd in air , -575 580 585 And folemn voice , the priest directs his prayer : God * God of the filver bow , thy ear incline 5.6 POPE'S HOMER .
... hands , and take The facred offering of the falted cake ; While thus with arms devoutly rais'd in air , -575 580 585 And folemn voice , the priest directs his prayer : God * God of the filver bow , thy ear incline 5.6 POPE'S HOMER .
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... arms ? Go , left the haughty partner of my fway With jealous eyes thy close access survey ; But part in peace , fecure thy prayer is fped : Witness the facred honours of our head , 675 The The nod that ratifies the will divine , The ...
... arms ? Go , left the haughty partner of my fway With jealous eyes thy close access survey ; But part in peace , fecure thy prayer is fped : Witness the facred honours of our head , 675 The The nod that ratifies the will divine , The ...
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Страница 149 - 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 past away.
Страница 9 - 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.
Страница 8 - I must confess myself utterly incapable of doing justice to Homer. I attempt him in no other hope, but that which one may entertain without much vanity, of giving a more tolerable copy of him than any entire...
Страница 17 - Tis ours the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis safer through the camp to go, And rob a subject, than despoil a foe.
Страница 123 - So spoke the god who darts celestial fires: He dreads his fury, and some steps retires. Then Phoebus bore the chief of Venus...
Страница 6 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Страница 3 - 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...
Страница 7 - Homer, and which, though it might be accommodated (as has been already shewn) to the ear of those times, is by no means so to ours: but one may wait for opportunities of placing them, where they derive an additional beauty from the occasions on which they are employed ; and in doing this properly, a translator may at once shew his fancy and his judgment.