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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... must here fpeak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carried into extremes , both by the cenfurers and defenders of Homer . It must be a ftrange partiality to antiquity , to think with madam Dacier , " that thofe times and ...
... must here fpeak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carried into extremes , both by the cenfurers and defenders of Homer . It must be a ftrange partiality to antiquity , to think with madam Dacier , " that thofe times and ...
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... must have been the greateft poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of thofe who furpaffed him . In all thefe objections we fee nothing that contradicts his title to the honour of the chief ...
... must have been the greateft poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of thofe who furpaffed him . In all thefe objections we fee nothing that contradicts his title to the honour of the chief ...
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... must confefs 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 tranflation in verfe has yet ...
... must confefs 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 tranflation in verfe has yet ...
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... must be envied and calumniated only for being at the head of it . That which in my opinion ought to be the endeavour of any one who tranflates Ho- mer , is above all things to keep alive that fpirit and fire which makes his chief charac ...
... must be envied and calumniated only for being at the head of it . That which in my opinion ought to be the endeavour of any one who tranflates Ho- mer , is above all things to keep alive that fpirit and fire which makes his chief charac ...
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... must hope to please but a few : those only who have at once a tafte of poetry , and competent learning . For to fatisfy fuch as want either , is not in the nature of this undertaking ; fince a mere modern wit can like no- thing that is ...
... must hope to please but a few : those only who have at once a tafte of poetry , and competent learning . For to fatisfy fuch as want either , is not in the nature of this undertaking ; fince a mere modern wit can like no- thing that is ...
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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...