The whole poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq., including his translations of Homer's Iliad and OdysseySamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... Achilles , the most short and fingle fubject that ever was chofen by any poet . Yet this he has fupplied with a vafler variety of incidents and events , and crowded with a greater number of counfels , fpeeches , battles , and episodes ...
... Achilles , the most short and fingle fubject that ever was chofen by any poet . Yet this he has fupplied with a vafler variety of incidents and events , and crowded with a greater number of counfels , fpeeches , battles , and episodes ...
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... Achilles is furious and intractable ; that of Diomede forward , yet liftening to advice , and fubject to command ; that of Ajax is heavy , and felf - confiding : of Hector , active and vigilant ; the courage of Agamemnon is infpirited ...
... Achilles is furious and intractable ; that of Diomede forward , yet liftening to advice , and fubject to command ; that of Ajax is heavy , and felf - confiding : of Hector , active and vigilant ; the courage of Agamemnon is infpirited ...
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... Achilles , bears all before him , and shines more and more as the tumult increases ; Virgil , calmly daring , like Æneas , appears undisturbed in the midft of the action ; difpofes all about him , and conquers with tranquillity . And ...
... Achilles , bears all before him , and shines more and more as the tumult increases ; Virgil , calmly daring , like Æneas , appears undisturbed in the midft of the action ; difpofes all about him , and conquers with tranquillity . And ...
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... Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and tediously repeated . Thofe of the Gods depended upon the powers and offices then believed to belong to them , and had contracted a weight and veneration from the rites and ...
... Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and tediously repeated . Thofe of the Gods depended upon the powers and offices then believed to belong to them , and had contracted a weight and veneration from the rites and ...
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... Achilles is not as good and perfect a prince as Æneas , when the very moral of his poem required a contrary character : it is thus that Rapin judges in his com- parifon of Homer and Virgil . Others felect thofe particular paffages of ...
... Achilles is not as good and perfect a prince as Æneas , when the very moral of his poem required a contrary character : it is thus that Rapin judges in his com- parifon of Homer and Virgil . Others felect thofe particular paffages of ...
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Achilles Ajax Alcinous Antilochus arms Atrides beneath 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 fenfe fhade fhall fhining fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filver fire firft fkies flain flame fleep flies foft fome forrows foul fpear fpoke fpread ftand ftill ftream fuch fure 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 Pallas Patroclus Peleus plain praife prefent Priam prince queen race rage reft rife rofe round ſhall 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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Page 374 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 388 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Page 10 - For to satisfy such as want either is not in the nature of this undertaking, since a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern, and a pedant nothing that is not Greek.
Page 381 - 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.
Page 62 - 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.
Page 386 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 331 - Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Page 326 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 471 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 321 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...