The Hymns of Homer: The Batrachomyomachia; and Two Original Poetical HymnsC. Whittingham, 1818 - 200 páginas |
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affect Anchises Apollo arms Batrachomyomachia bear beasts beauty Ben Jonson beneath birth blessed blest born bosom bright brought brows Bussy d'Ambois call'd cast crown'd darts dear death deities delight divine doth earth eternal eyes fair fame fane fate fear feet fiery fire flew flow'r force frogs gave GEORGE CHAPMAN give glorious glory goddess gods golden grac'd grace hand hast hath hear heart heaven Hermes hill Homer honour honour'd Hymn Iliad Ilythia immortals Inigo Jones Jonson Jove Jove's king labour lance Latona light live lute men's mice mighty mind mortal muse never night nymphs Olympus Onchestus Otreus oxen Pallas periphrasis Phoebus poem poesy poets pow'rs praise Pylos reach'd retreat rich sacred seed shadows shew shore show'd sight sing song soul spirits straight sweet temple thee things thou took translation turn'd Venus verses virtue vows weeds
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Página l - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shewn himself to be one; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Página viii - For although a Poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him...
Página l - He could not go out of himself, as Shakspeare could shift at pleasure, to inform and animate other existences, but in himself he had an eye to perceive and a soul to embrace all forms and modes of being.
Página 24 - Prone to delivery, and to yield the weight Of her dear burthen, with a world of ease. When with her fair hand she a palm did seize. And staying her by it, stuck her tender knees Amidst the soft mead; that did smile beneath Her sacred labour, and the child did breathe The air in th
Página xlviii - D'Amboys upon the theatre; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly; nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
Página 17 - Thy old swift changes, made a young fix'd prime, O let thy beauty scorch the wings of time, That fluttering he may fall before thine eyes, And beat himself to death before he rise: And as...
Página xiv - ... of Oration as are most apt for the language into which they are converted.
Página 35 - His beauty was it, not the body's pride, That made him great Aquarius stellified. And that mind most is beautiful and high, And nearest comes to a Divinity, That furtherest is from spot of Earth's delight, Pleasures that lose their substance with their sight, Such one, Saturnius ravisheth to love, And fills the cup of all content to Jove.
Página 25 - Her arbours, thickets, and her wondrous game, (A huntress, being never match'd in fame), Presume not then ye flesh-confounded souls, That cannot bear the full Castalian bowls, Which sever mounting spirits from the senses, To look in this deep fount for thy pretences : The juice more clear than day, yet shadows night...
Página xv - 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.