The Whole Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: Including His Translations of Homer's Iliad and OdysseyP. Wogan, 1804 - 479 pages |
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... whose advice determined me to undertake this task , who was pleafed to write to me upon that occafion in fuch terms as I cannot repeat without vanity . I was obliged to Sir Richard Steele for a very early recommendation of my ...
... whose advice determined me to undertake this task , who was pleafed to write to me upon that occafion in fuch terms as I cannot repeat without vanity . I was obliged to Sir Richard Steele for a very early recommendation of my ...
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... whose pen has never gratified the prejudices of particular parties , or the vanities of particular men . Whatever the fuccefs may prove , I fhall never repent of an undertaking in which I have experienced the candour and friendship of ...
... whose pen has never gratified the prejudices of particular parties , or the vanities of particular men . Whatever the fuccefs may prove , I fhall never repent of an undertaking in which I have experienced the candour and friendship of ...
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... whose bleft oracles thy lips declare ; Long as Achilles breathes this vital air , No daring Greek of all the numerous band Against his priest shall lift an impious hand : Not ev'n the chief by whom our hosts are led , The king of kings ...
... whose bleft oracles thy lips declare ; Long as Achilles breathes this vital air , No daring Greek of all the numerous band Against his priest shall lift an impious hand : Not ev'n the chief by whom our hosts are led , The king of kings ...
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... Whose brawny fhoulders , and whofe fwelling chest , And lofty ftature , far exceed the reft ? 295 Ajax the great ( the beauteous queen replied ) Himself a hoft : the Grecian ftrength and pride . See ! bold Idomeneus fuperior towers ...
... Whose brawny fhoulders , and whofe fwelling chest , And lofty ftature , far exceed the reft ? 295 Ajax the great ( the beauteous queen replied ) Himself a hoft : the Grecian ftrength and pride . See ! bold Idomeneus fuperior towers ...
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... whose hand is fate , A worthy champion for the Grecian state . This task let Ajax or Tydides prove , Or he , the king of kings , beloy'd by Jove ! 215 Old Neftor fhook the cafque . By heaven in- fpir'd , 225 Leap'd forth the lot , of ...
... whose hand is fate , A worthy champion for the Grecian state . This task let Ajax or Tydides prove , Or he , the king of kings , beloy'd by Jove ! 215 Old Neftor fhook the cafque . By heaven in- fpir'd , 225 Leap'd forth the lot , of ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.