The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An essay on ... Homer [by T. Parnell].1720 |
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... once I quit the field ; ' Tis not to Hector , but to heav'n I yield . Yet , nor the God , nor heav'n fhould give me fear , 110 Did but the voice of Ajax reach my ear : 115 Still would we turn , ftill battle on the plains , And give ...
... once I quit the field ; ' Tis not to Hector , but to heav'n I yield . Yet , nor the God , nor heav'n fhould give me fear , 110 Did but the voice of Ajax reach my ear : 115 Still would we turn , ftill battle on the plains , And give ...
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... once appear , - And Hector trembles and recedes with fear ; 5 Thou dar'ft not meet the terrors of his eye ; And lo ! already thou prepar❜ft to fly . The Trojan chief with fixt refentment ey'd The Lycian leader , and fedate reply'd ...
... once appear , - And Hector trembles and recedes with fear ; 5 Thou dar'ft not meet the terrors of his eye ; And lo ! already thou prepar❜ft to fly . The Trojan chief with fixt refentment ey'd The Lycian leader , and fedate reply'd ...
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... once the greatest of mankind had worn . Yet live ! I give thee one illuftrious day , A blaze of glory e're thou fad'ft away . v . 231. Jupiter's Speech to Hector . ] The Poet prepares us for the death of Hector , perhaps to please the ...
... once the greatest of mankind had worn . Yet live ! I give thee one illuftrious day , A blaze of glory e're thou fad'ft away . v . 231. Jupiter's Speech to Hector . ] The Poet prepares us for the death of Hector , perhaps to please the ...
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... Once more at Ajax , Hector's jav'lin flies ; The Grecian marking as it cut the skies , Shun'd the defcending death ; which hiffing on , Stretch'd in the duft the great Iphytus ' fon , Schedius Schedins the brave , of all the Phocian ...
... Once more at Ajax , Hector's jav'lin flies ; The Grecian marking as it cut the skies , Shun'd the defcending death ; which hiffing on , Stretch'd in the duft the great Iphytus ' fon , Schedius Schedins the brave , of all the Phocian ...
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... once , it being often neceffary to hide part of them , as Thetis does from Achilles : The other , not to pulh men of courage upon all that is poffible for them to do . Thus Achilles , tho ' he thought Pa- troclus able to drive the ...
... once , it being often neceffary to hide part of them , as Thetis does from Achilles : The other , not to pulh men of courage upon all that is poffible for them to do . Thus Achilles , tho ' he thought Pa- troclus able to drive the ...
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Achilles Achilles's Æneas againſt Ajax ancients anfwers Antilochus Apollo armour arms Atrides battel becauſe Befides BERNARD LINTOT brave breaft buckler caft Caucons chariot Compartiment Dacier dead death defcending defcription divine dreadful duft Eneas Euftathius Euphorbus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fays fecond feems fent fhall fhew fhort fhould fide field fight filver fince fire firft firſt flain flies flood fome forrows fpeak fpear fpeech ftands ftill ftream fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks hand heav'n Hector hero himſelf Homer horfes Iliad itſelf Jove juft Jupiter Laomedon Lycaon Menelaus mortal muſt Neptune o'er obferves occafion paffage Pallas Patroclus Peleus perfon plain poet Polydamas pow'rs prefent Priam rage reafon reprefented rifing river round ruſhing ſaid Scamander ſcene ſhall ſhine ſhore ſpear ſpoke ſpread thee thefe theſe Thetis thofe thoſe thou thro tranflated tremble Trojans Troy Virgil Vulcan whofe Xanthus
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Page 93 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.
Page 82 - Last o'er the dead the milk-white veil they threw; That done, their sorrows and their sighs renew. Meanwhile to Juno, in the realms above, (His wife and sister,) spoke almighty Jove. "At last thy will prevails: great Peleus' son Rises in arms: such grace thy Greeks have won.
Page 81 - The body then they bathe with pious toil, Embalm the wounds, anoint the limbs with oil, High on a bed of state extended laid, And decent cover'd with a linen shade; Last o'er the dead the milk-white veil they threw; That done, their sorrows and their sighs renew. Meanwhile to Juno, in the realms above, (His wife and sister,) spoke almighty Jove. "At last thy will prevails: great Peleus...
Page 247 - His shield (a broad circumference) he bore; Then graceful as he stood, in act to throw The lifted javelin, thus...
Page 152 - For Peleus breathes no more the vital air; Or drags a wretched life of age and care, But till the news of my sad fate invades His hastening soul, and sinks him to the shades.
Page 62 - She said, and left the caverns of the main, All bathed in tears ; the melancholy train Attend her way. Wide-opening part the tides, While the long pomp the silver wave divides. Approaching now, they touch'd the Trojan land ; Then, two by two, ascended up the strand.
Page 81 - Weep all the night, and murmur all the day Spoils of my arms, and thine ; when, wasting wide, Our swords kept time, and conquer'd side by side...
Page 37 - Hither turn, (he said,) Turn where distress demands immediate aid; The dead, encircled by his friends, forego, And save the living from a fiercer foe.
Page 171 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
Page 67 - Charg'd with refulgent arms, (a glorious load) Vulcanian arms, the labour of a God.