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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... Presents fhall come , Greeting . Whereas Our Trufty and Well - beloved BERNARD LINTOT of our City of London , Bookfeller , has humbly reprefented un- to Us that he is now printing a Tranflation of the ILIAD of HOMER , from the Greek ...
... Presents fhall come , Greeting . Whereas Our Trufty and Well - beloved BERNARD LINTOT of our City of London , Bookfeller , has humbly reprefented un- to Us that he is now printing a Tranflation of the ILIAD of HOMER , from the Greek ...
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... present , and our future race . For this our wealth , our products you enjoy , And glean the relicks of exhausted Troy . Now then to conquer or to die prepare , To die or conquer , are the terms of war . Whatever hand fhall win ...
... present , and our future race . For this our wealth , our products you enjoy , And glean the relicks of exhausted Troy . Now then to conquer or to die prepare , To die or conquer , are the terms of war . Whatever hand fhall win ...
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... presents , be thy care ; To us , ' tis equal : All we ask is war . While yet we talk , or but an instant shun The fight , our glorious work remains undone . Let ev'ry Greek who fees my fpear confound 150 The Trojan ranks , and deal ...
... presents , be thy care ; To us , ' tis equal : All we ask is war . While yet we talk , or but an instant shun The fight , our glorious work remains undone . Let ev'ry Greek who fees my fpear confound 150 The Trojan ranks , and deal ...
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... presents , to Achilles made , In full affembly of all Greece be laid . The King of Men shall rise in publick fight , And folemn fwear , ( obfervant of the rite ) That spotlefs as she came , the maid removes , Pure from his arms , and ...
... presents , to Achilles made , In full affembly of all Greece be laid . The King of Men shall rise in publick fight , And folemn fwear , ( obfervant of the rite ) That spotlefs as she came , the maid removes , Pure from his arms , and ...
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... presents from the royal tent . The fons of Neftor , Phyleus ' valiant heir , Thias and Merion , thunderbolts of war , With Lycomedes of Creiontian train , And Melanippus , form'd the chofen train . Swift as the word was giv'n , the ...
... presents from the royal tent . The fons of Neftor , Phyleus ' valiant heir , Thias and Merion , thunderbolts of war , With Lycomedes of Creiontian train , And Melanippus , form'd the chofen train . Swift as the word was giv'n , 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.