The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fall . The prize , the beauteous prize , I will resign , So dearly valued , and fo juftly mine . 145 150 But fince for common good I yield the fair , My private lofs let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain ...
... fall . The prize , the beauteous prize , I will resign , So dearly valued , and fo juftly mine . 145 150 But fince for common good I yield the fair , My private lofs let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain ...
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... No laws can limit , no refpect control . Before his pride muft his fuperiours fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? VOL . I. E } 360 365 370 375 Him Him muft our hofts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ILIAD , 49 Book I.
... No laws can limit , no refpect control . Before his pride muft his fuperiours fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? VOL . I. E } 360 365 370 375 Him Him muft our hofts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ILIAD , 49 Book I.
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... fall , by too severe a doom ; Sure , to fo fhort a race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn Honour and fame at least the Thunderer ow'd , And ill he pays the promife of a God ; If yon proud monarch thus thy fon ...
... fall , by too severe a doom ; Sure , to fo fhort a race of glory born , Great Jove in justice should this span adorn Honour and fame at least the Thunderer ow'd , And ill he pays the promife of a God ; If yon proud monarch thus thy fon ...
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... fall ; Conjure him far to drive the Grecian train , To hurl them headlong to their fleet and main , 530 To heap the shores with copious death , and bring The Greeks to know the curse of such a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head ...
... fall ; Conjure him far to drive the Grecian train , To hurl them headlong to their fleet and main , 530 To heap the shores with copious death , and bring The Greeks to know the curse of such a king : Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head ...
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... fall . Swift as the word the vain illufion fled , Defcends , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ; Cloath'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wifdom , and rever'd for age ; F 2 10 20 Around 30 Around his temples fpreads his ...
... fall . Swift as the word the vain illufion fled , Defcends , and hovers o'er Atrides ' head ; Cloath'd in the figure of the Pilian fage , Renown'd for wifdom , and rever'd for age ; F 2 10 20 Around 30 Around his temples fpreads his ...
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Страница 1 - 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.
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.