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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... town twenty ftadia from Charonea , on the fide of mount Parnaffus , and it is hard to know why Homer gives it the Epithet of renown'd , and makes it the refidence of Schedius , King of the Phocians ; when it was but nine hundred paces ...
... town twenty ftadia from Charonea , on the fide of mount Parnaffus , and it is hard to know why Homer gives it the Epithet of renown'd , and makes it the refidence of Schedius , King of the Phocians ; when it was but nine hundred paces ...
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... town arise The smokes , high - curling to the fhaded skies ; ( Seen from fome ifland , o'er the main afar , When men ... town plac'd in an ifland , becaufe fuch a place being befieg'd has no other means of making its diftrefs known than ...
... town arise The smokes , high - curling to the fhaded skies ; ( Seen from fome ifland , o'er the main afar , When men ... town plac'd in an ifland , becaufe fuch a place being befieg'd has no other means of making its diftrefs known than ...
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... town , her gates and bulwarks fhall defend . 325 When morning dawns , our well - appointed pow'rs Array'd in arms , fhall line the lofty tow'rs . Let the fierce hero then when fury calls , Vent his mad vengeance on our rocky walls , Or ...
... town , her gates and bulwarks fhall defend . 325 When morning dawns , our well - appointed pow'rs Array'd in arms , fhall line the lofty tow'rs . Let the fierce hero then when fury calls , Vent his mad vengeance on our rocky walls , Or ...
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... , would have this city in war to be meant of Eleufina , but upon very flight reafons . What is wonderful Two mighty hofts a leaguer'd town embrace , And one is , 96 BOOK XVIII . HOMER'S ILIAD . The witness is produc'd on either hand; ...
... , would have this city in war to be meant of Eleufina , but upon very flight reafons . What is wonderful Two mighty hofts a leaguer'd town embrace , And one is , 96 BOOK XVIII . HOMER'S ILIAD . The witness is produc'd on either hand; ...
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Homerus. Two mighty hofts a leaguer'd town embrace , And one would pillage , one wou'd burn the place . 595 Meantime the townfmen , arm'd with filent care , A fecret ambush on the foe prepare : Their wives , their children , and the ...
Homerus. Two mighty hofts a leaguer'd town embrace , And one would pillage , one wou'd burn the place . 595 Meantime the townfmen , arm'd with filent care , A fecret ambush on the foe prepare : Their wives , their children , and the ...
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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.