The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 38H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Beneath this happy roof they end at last ; No longer now from shore to fhore to roam , Smooth feas and gentle winds invite him home . But hear me , princes ! whom thefe walls inclofe , For whom my chanter fings , and goblet flows With ...
... Beneath this happy roof they end at last ; No longer now from shore to fhore to roam , Smooth feas and gentle winds invite him home . But hear me , princes ! whom thefe walls inclofe , For whom my chanter fings , and goblet flows With ...
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... beneath the facred hand Of great Alcinous falls , and stains the fand . To Jove th ' Eternal ( Power above all Powers ! 25 Who wings the winds , and darkens .Heaven with showers ) 30 The flames afcend : till evening they prolong Thy ...
... beneath the facred hand Of great Alcinous falls , and stains the fand . To Jove th ' Eternal ( Power above all Powers ! 25 Who wings the winds , and darkens .Heaven with showers ) 30 The flames afcend : till evening they prolong Thy ...
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... Beneath , a gloomy grotto's cool recefs Delights the Nereids of the neighbouring feas , Where bowls and urns were form'd of living ftone , And maffy beams in native marble shone ; On which the labours of the nymph were roll'd , Their ...
... Beneath , a gloomy grotto's cool recefs Delights the Nereids of the neighbouring feas , Where bowls and urns were form'd of living ftone , And maffy beams in native marble shone ; On which the labours of the nymph were roll'd , Their ...
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... beneath the ground . The Fates have follow'd as declar'd the feer . Be humbled , nations ! and your monarch hear . No more unlicens'd brave the deeps , no more With every ftranger pafs from shore to fhore ; On angry Neptune now for ...
... beneath the ground . The Fates have follow'd as declar'd the feer . Be humbled , nations ! and your monarch hear . No more unlicens'd brave the deeps , no more With every ftranger pafs from shore to fhore ; On angry Neptune now for ...
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... beneath his utmost reign Behold him finking in the western main . The rugged foil allows no level space For flying chariots , or the rapid race ; Yet , not ungrateful to the peafant's pain , Suffices fulness to the fwelling grain : 290 ...
... beneath his utmost reign Behold him finking in the western main . The rugged foil allows no level space For flying chariots , or the rapid race ; Yet , not ungrateful to the peafant's pain , Suffices fulness to the fwelling grain : 290 ...
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Страница 275 - the latter, where we find not an antiquated, affefted, or uncouth word, for fome hundred lines together; as in his fifth book, the latter part of the eighth, the former of the tenth and eleventh books, and in the narration of Michael in the twelfth. I wonder indeed that he, who ventured (contrary to the
Страница 103 - knew,, and ftrove to meet; In vain he ftrove to crawl, and kifs his feet; Yet (all he could) his tail, his ears, his eyes, Salute his mafter, and confefs his joys. Soft pity touch'd the mighty
Страница 51 - in better days, by Helen wove : Safe in thy mother's care the vefture lay, 14.0 To deck thy bride, and grace thy nuptial day. Meantime may'ft thou with happieft fpeed regain Thy ftately palace, and thy wide domain. She faid, and gave the veil; with grateful look The prince the variegated
Страница 269 - is ufmg a vaft force to lift a feather. I believe, now I am upon this head, it will be found a juft obfervation, That the low aftions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous ; but things natural can' Metaphors raif'e the latter into dignity, as we fee in the
Страница 258 - on thy immortal brow. Thus when thy draughts, O Raphael! time invades, And the bold figure from the canvas fades, A rival hand recalls from every part Some latent grace, and equals art with art : Tranfported we furvey the dubious ftrife, While each fair image ftarts again to life. How long,
Страница 264 - are ill invented, or ill executed. He affirms it to be nice and particular in painting the manners, but not that thofe manners are ill painted. If Homer has fully in thefe points accomplifhed his own defign, and done all that the nature of his poem demanded or allowed, it
Страница 60 - thou (he cries) haft felt The fpite of fortune too ! her cruel hand 410 Snatch'd thee an infant from thy native land ! Snatch'd from thy parents' arms, thy parents' eyes, To early wants! a man of miferies ! Thy whole fad ftory, from its firft, declare : Sunk the fair city by the rage of war,
Страница 42 - The morn confpicuous on her golden throne. 570 Oh, were my ftrength as then, as then my age! Some friend would fence me from the winter's rage. Yet, tatter'd as I look, I challeng'd then The honours and the offices of men : Some mafter, or fome fervant, would allow 575 A cloak and
Страница 267 - find in each the fame vivacity and fecundity of invention, the fame life and ftrength of imaging and colouring, the particular defcriptions as highly painted, the figures as bold, the metaphors as animated, and the numbers as harmonious, and as various. The Odyfley is a perpetual fource of poetry: the
Страница 284 - we have at leaft none of the blafphemers of Homer. We fteadfaftly and unanimoufly believe, both his poem, and our conftitution, to be the beft that ever human wit invented : that the one is not more incapable of amendment than the other; and (old as they both are) we