The Whole Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: Including His Translations of Homer's Iliad and OdysseyP. Wogan, 1804 - 479 páginas |
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... kind , out of which thofe who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each accord- ing to his fancy , to cultivate and beautify . If fome things are : 00 luxuriant , it is owing to the richness of the foil ; and if ...
... kind , out of which thofe who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each accord- ing to his fancy , to cultivate and beautify . If fome things are : 00 luxuriant , it is owing to the richness of the foil ; and if ...
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... kind , in his treatise of the Compofition of Words . It fuffices at prefent to observe of his numbers , that they flow with fo much eafe , as to make one imagine Homer had no other care than to transcribe as fast as the Mufes dictated ...
... kind , in his treatise of the Compofition of Words . It fuffices at prefent to observe of his numbers , that they flow with fo much eafe , as to make one imagine Homer had no other care than to transcribe as fast as the Mufes dictated ...
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... kind seems like a mighty tree which rifes from the most vigorous feed , is improved with induftry , flourishes , and produces the fineft fruit ; Nature and Art conspire to raise it ; pleafure and profit join to make it valuable and they ...
... kind seems like a mighty tree which rifes from the most vigorous feed , is improved with induftry , flourishes , and produces the fineft fruit ; Nature and Art conspire to raise it ; pleafure and profit join to make it valuable and they ...
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... kind . The troops Methone , or Thaumachia yields , Olizon's rocks , or Meliboa's fields , With Philoctetes fail'd , whofe matchless art From the tough bow directs the feather'd dart . 875 Seven were his fhips : each vessel fifty row ...
... kind . The troops Methone , or Thaumachia yields , Olizon's rocks , or Meliboa's fields , With Philoctetes fail'd , whofe matchless art From the tough bow directs the feather'd dart . 875 Seven were his fhips : each vessel fifty row ...
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... kind ? For this I mourn , till grief or dire difeafe Shall wafte the form , whofe crime it was to please . The king of kings , Atrides , you furvey , 235 Great in the war , and great in arts of fway : 230 240 My brother once , before my ...
... kind ? For this I mourn , till grief or dire difeafe Shall wafte the form , whofe crime it was to please . The king of kings , Atrides , you furvey , 235 Great in the war , and great in arts of fway : 230 240 My brother once , before my ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Achilles Ajax Alcinous Antilochus arms Atrides bleft bold brave breaft caft caufe chief courfers crown'd death defcends divine dreadful duft Eurymachus Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate feas fhade fhall fhining fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filver fire firft fkies flain flames fleep flies foft fome forrows foul fpear fpoke fpread ftand ftill ftream fuch fure fury glory Goddeſs Gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks hand heart Heaven Hector hero himſelf hoft honours Idomeneus Ilion Jove juft king laft lefs loft lord mighty Mufe muft muſt numbers nymph o'er paffion Pallas Patroclus Peleus plain praife Priam prince queen race rage reft rife rofe round ſhall ſhore ſkies ſtand ſtate tears Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan Troy Ulyffes vafe whofe wife woes wound youth
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Página 389 - Some scruple rose, but thus he eas'd his thought : '•' I'll now give sixpence where I gave a groat ; Where once I went to church I'll now go twice — And am so clear too of all other vice.
Página 324 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a Matadore, Then each according to the rank they bore ; For Sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, 35 Are, as when women, wond'rous fond of place.
Página 3 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Página 368 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 3 - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and...
Página 324 - And tremble at the sea that froths below !' He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend; Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend; Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair; Some hang upon the pendants of her ear: 140 With beating hearts the dire event they wait, Anxious, and trembling for the birth of Fate.
Página 383 - I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 56 - 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 pass'd away.
Página 22 - be patient, and obey: Dear as you are, if Jove his arm extend, I can but grieve, unable to defend. What god so daring in your aid to move, Or lift his hand against the force of Jove? Once in your cause I felt his matchless might, 760 Hurl'd headlong downward from th...
Página 310 - Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day : 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.