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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... Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd , heavenly Goddess fing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The fouls of mighty chiefs untimely flain ; Whofe limbs unbury'd on the naked shore , Devouring dogs and hungry ...
... Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd , heavenly Goddess fing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The fouls of mighty chiefs untimely flain ; Whofe limbs unbury'd on the naked shore , Devouring dogs and hungry ...
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... Greece restore , And Phoebus dart his burning shafts no more . 90 95 He said , and fat : when Chalcas thus repli'd : Chalcas the wife , the Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whose comprehensive view The paft , the prefent ...
... Greece restore , And Phoebus dart his burning shafts no more . 90 95 He said , and fat : when Chalcas thus repli'd : Chalcas the wife , the Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whose comprehensive view The paft , the prefent ...
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... Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he alone has fought and bled in vain . Infatiate king ( Achilles thus replies ) Fond of the power , but fonder of the prize ! Would'st thou the Greeks their lawful prey ...
... Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain , That he alone has fought and bled in vain . Infatiate king ( Achilles thus replies ) Fond of the power , but fonder of the prize ! Would'st thou the Greeks their lawful prey ...
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... Greece again Shall call Achilles , fhe fhall call in vain . When , Aufh'd with flaughter , Hector comes to spread The purpled fhore with mountains of the dead , 320 Then fhalt thou mourn th ' affront thy madness gave , Forc'd to deplore ...
... Greece again Shall call Achilles , fhe fhall call in vain . When , Aufh'd with flaughter , Hector comes to spread The purpled fhore with mountains of the dead , 320 Then fhalt thou mourn th ' affront thy madness gave , Forc'd to deplore ...
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... Greece be humbled , and the Trojans rife ; Till the proud king , and all the Achaian race , 660 Shall heap with honour him they now difgrace . Thus Thetis fpoke , but Jove in filence held The facred councils of his breaft conceal'd ...
... Greece be humbled , and the Trojans rife ; Till the proud king , and all the Achaian race , 660 Shall heap with honour him they now difgrace . Thus Thetis fpoke , but Jove in filence held The facred councils of his breaft conceal'd ...
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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...