Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal ; Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of poetry ; Francis's HoraceAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... Priam , and. Th ' embroider'd sandals on his feet were tied ; The starry falchion glitter'd at his side ; And last his arm the massy sceptre loads , Unstain'd , immortal , and the gift of gods . Now rosy Morn ascends the court of Jove ...
... Priam , and. Th ' embroider'd sandals on his feet were tied ; The starry falchion glitter'd at his side ; And last his arm the massy sceptre loads , Unstain'd , immortal , and the gift of gods . Now rosy Morn ascends the court of Jove ...
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... Priam's race ? Shall beauteous Helen still remain unfreed , Still unreveng'd a thousand heroes bleed ? Haste , generous Ithacus ! prevent the shame , Recall your armies , and your chiefs reclaim . Your own resistless eloquence employ ...
... Priam's race ? Shall beauteous Helen still remain unfreed , Still unreveng'd a thousand heroes bleed ? Haste , generous Ithacus ! prevent the shame , Recall your armies , and your chiefs reclaim . Your own resistless eloquence employ ...
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... Priam's palace sunk in Grecian fires , In Hector's breast be plunged this shining sword , And slaughter'd heroes groan around their lord ! " Thus pray'd the chief ; his unavailing prayer Great Jove refus'd , and tost in empty air : The ...
... Priam's palace sunk in Grecian fires , In Hector's breast be plunged this shining sword , And slaughter'd heroes groan around their lord ! " Thus pray'd the chief ; his unavailing prayer Great Jove refus'd , and tost in empty air : The ...
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... Priam sat with his counsellors , observing So from the king the shining warrior flies , the Greeian leaders on the plain below , to whom And plung'd amid the thickest Trojans lies . Helen gives an account of the chief of them . And ...
... Priam sat with his counsellors , observing So from the king the shining warrior flies , the Greeian leaders on the plain below , to whom And plung'd amid the thickest Trojans lies . Helen gives an account of the chief of them . And ...
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... Priam in the truce engage , And add the sanction of considerate age ; His sons are faithless , headlong in debate , And youth itself an empty wavering state : Cool age advances venerably wise , Turns on all hands its deep - discerning ...
... Priam in the truce engage , And add the sanction of considerate age ; His sons are faithless , headlong in debate , And youth itself an empty wavering state : Cool age advances venerably wise , Turns on all hands its deep - discerning ...
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Achilles Æneas Ajax Alcinous Anchises Antilochus arms Atrides band bear behold beneath blood bold brave breast chariot chief command coursers crown'd dart death descends dire divine dreadful Earth Eurymachus Ev'n eyes fair falchion fame fate father fear feast field fierce fight fire fix'd flames flies flood force fury glory goddess gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste hear heart Heaven Hector hero honours host Idomeneus Iliad Ilion javelin Jove king labours lance land Latian Lycian maid mighty Mnestheus monarch mortal Neptune night numbers o'er Pallas Patroclus Peleus Phœbus plain poet Priam prince proud Pylian queen race rage rising sacred seas shade shield shining ships shore sire skies slain soul spear spoke stand steeds stood swain Swift tears Telemachus thee thou thunder toils train trembling Trojan Troy Turnus Ulysses Virgil walls warrior winds woes wound wretched youth
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Page 54 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Page 208 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 74 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give...
Page 327 - I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English, as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age.
Page 57 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 16 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows,* Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Page 295 - The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears ; and, trembling with delight.
Page 129 - Scarce the whole people stop his desperate course, While strong affliction gives the feeble force: Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun, Imploring all, and naming one by one: 'Ah! let me, let me go where sorrow calls; I, only I, will issue from your walls (Guide or companion, friends!
Page 11 - But that which is to be allowed him, and which very much contributed to cover his defects, is a daring fiery spirit that animates his translation, which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself would have writ before he arrived at years of discretion.
Page 155 - Perverse mankind ! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute decree ; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of Fate.