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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... descend from hence to the expreffion , we see the bright imagination of Homer , shining out in the most enlivened forms of it . We acknowledge him the father of poetical diction , the first who taught that language of the Gods to men ...
... descend from hence to the expreffion , we see the bright imagination of Homer , shining out in the most enlivened forms of it . We acknowledge him the father of poetical diction , the first who taught that language of the Gods to men ...
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... descend from Jove . If broken vows this heavy curse have laid , Let altars smoke , and hecatombs be paid . So heaven aton'd shall dying Greece restore , And Phœbus dart his burning shafts no more . 85 crown'd , He faid , and fat : when ...
... descend from Jove . If broken vows this heavy curse have laid , Let altars smoke , and hecatombs be paid . So heaven aton'd shall dying Greece restore , And Phœbus dart his burning shafts no more . 85 crown'd , He faid , and fat : when ...
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... descends from Jove . The phantom faid ; then vanish'd from his fight , Refolves to air , and mixes with the night . A thousand schemes the monarch's mind employ ; 45 Elate in thought , he facks untaken Troy : Vain as he was , and to the ...
... descends from Jove . The phantom faid ; then vanish'd from his fight , Refolves to air , and mixes with the night . A thousand schemes the monarch's mind employ ; 45 Elate in thought , he facks untaken Troy : Vain as he was , and to the ...
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... descends the living cloud . So , from the tents and ships , a lengthening train Spreads all the beach , and wide o ... descend , Before the blaft the lofty harvests bend : 180 Thus o'er the field the moving host appears , With ...
... descends the living cloud . So , from the tents and ships , a lengthening train Spreads all the beach , and wide o ... descend , Before the blaft the lofty harvests bend : 180 Thus o'er the field the moving host appears , With ...
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... the daftard bends , The weighty fceptre on his back descends : On the round bunch the bloody tumours rife ; The tears spring starting from his haggard eyes s D Trembling he fat , and , shrunk in abject sears POPE'S 25 HOMER .
... the daftard bends , The weighty fceptre on his back descends : On the round bunch the bloody tumours rife ; The tears spring starting from his haggard eyes s D Trembling he fat , and , shrunk in abject sears POPE'S 25 HOMER .
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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...