The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerSamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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Halaman 3
... appears , though attended with abfur- dities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we fee nothing but its own fplendor . This fire is difcerned in Virgil , but difcerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more fhining ...
... appears , though attended with abfur- dities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we fee nothing but its own fplendor . This fire is difcerned in Virgil , but difcerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more fhining ...
Halaman 6
... appear , which was able to clothe all the properties of elements , the qualifications of the mind , the virtues and vices , in forms and perfons ; and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they fhadowed ...
... appear , which was able to clothe all the properties of elements , the qualifications of the mind , the virtues and vices , in forms and perfons ; and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they fhadowed ...
Halaman 8
... appears in his Capa- neus , Tydeus , Hippomedon , & c . They have a pari- ty of character , which makes them feem brothers of one family . I believe when the reader is led into this track of reflection , if he will purfue it through the ...
... appears in his Capa- neus , Tydeus , Hippomedon , & c . They have a pari- ty of character , which makes them feem brothers of one family . I believe when the reader is led into this track of reflection , if he will purfue it through the ...
Halaman 15
... appears undisturbed in the midft of the action ; difpofes all about him , and conquers with tranquillity . And when we look upon their machines , Homer feems like his own Jupiter in his terrors , fhaking Olympus , fcattering the ...
... appears undisturbed in the midft of the action ; difpofes all about him , and conquers with tranquillity . And when we look upon their machines , Homer feems like his own Jupiter in his terrors , fhaking Olympus , fcattering the ...
Halaman 21
... but that warmth of fancy will carry the loudest and most universal applauses , which holds , the heart of a reader under the strongest enchantment . C 3- Homer Homer not only appears the Inventor of poetry , but PREFACE . 21.
... but that warmth of fancy will carry the loudest and most universal applauses , which holds , the heart of a reader under the strongest enchantment . C 3- Homer Homer not only appears the Inventor of poetry , but PREFACE . 21.
Istilah dan frasa umum
Achilles againſt Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands beneath bold brave breaſt cauſe chariot chief counfels courfers crown'd dare dart defcending Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhall fhining fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filent filver fire firft firſt fix'd flain flames flew fome foul fpear ftand fteeds ftill ftrength ftrong fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hafte hand Heaven Hector heroes himſelf hoft Homer honours hoſt Idomeneus immortal javelin Jove king lance laſt Lycian Menelaus mighty monarch moſt Neftor numbers o'er Oeneus Oïleus Pallas Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince Pylian race rage reft rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhare ſhips ſhore Simoïs ſkies ſpoils ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds Sthenelus ſtood Teucer thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes walls warriour whofe whoſe wound
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Halaman 195 - 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.
Halaman 21 - Homer, and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Halaman 208 - My soul impels me to the embattled plains! Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. "Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Halaman 15 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Halaman 132 - Apollo's altars in his native town. Now with full force the yielding horn he bends, Drawn to an arch, and joins the doubling ends ; (.'lose to his breast he strains the nerve below, Till the barb'd point approach the circling bow ; The impatient weapon whizzes on the wing ; Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string.
Halaman 26 - far-shooting," is capable of two explications, one literal in respect of the darts and bow, the ensigns of that god, the other allegorical with regard to the rays of the sun; therefore in such places where Apollo is represented as a god in person, I would use the former interpretation, and where the effects of the sun are described, I would make choice of the latter.
Halaman 14 - Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their merit upon the whole.
Halaman 33 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Halaman 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Halaman 5 - ... of both Homer's poems into one, which is yet but a fourth part as large as his. The other epic poets have...