The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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... others of that wonder - working age . But come down , without fear of breaking your neck by the fall - to Dryden and Pope at once ; -and then , sliding along a gentle level , to Cowper — and , last of all HOMER AND HIS TRANSLATORS . 3.
... others of that wonder - working age . But come down , without fear of breaking your neck by the fall - to Dryden and Pope at once ; -and then , sliding along a gentle level , to Cowper — and , last of all HOMER AND HIS TRANSLATORS . 3.
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... POPE . " Achilles ' wrath , to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd , heavenly goddess ! sing , That wrath ... Pope and Sotheby are about on an equality , though Pope is the most musical ; and Tickel is poor , though Johnson ...
... POPE . " Achilles ' wrath , to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd , heavenly goddess ! sing , That wrath ... Pope and Sotheby are about on an equality , though Pope is the most musical ; and Tickel is poor , though Johnson ...
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... Pope translates it poorly , and kills it by transposition ; Cowper keeps it in its right place , but has dropped the noble and essential epithets ; Sotheby almost repeats Pope . Let us go straight to the famous picture of the Descent of ...
... Pope translates it poorly , and kills it by transposition ; Cowper keeps it in its right place , but has dropped the noble and essential epithets ; Sotheby almost repeats Pope . Let us go straight to the famous picture of the Descent of ...
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... POPE . " Thus Chryses pray'd , the favouring power attends , And from Olympus ' lofty top descends . Bent was his bow , the Grecian hearts to wound , Fierce as he moved his silver shafts resound . Breathing revenge , a sudden night he ...
... POPE . " Thus Chryses pray'd , the favouring power attends , And from Olympus ' lofty top descends . Bent was his bow , the Grecian hearts to wound , Fierce as he moved his silver shafts resound . Breathing revenge , a sudden night he ...
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... Pope's school . " And gloomy darkness roll'd around his head , " is idle tautology . " Twang'd his deadly bow , " not literal , where literality was demanded ; and " feather'd fates " may be restored , without Pope being the poorer , to ...
... Pope's school . " And gloomy darkness roll'd around his head , " is idle tautology . " Twang'd his deadly bow , " not literal , where literality was demanded ; and " feather'd fates " may be restored , without Pope being the poorer , to ...
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Achilles address'd admiration Agamemnon Alcinous Andromache Antilochus Apollo arms Atreus Atrides beautiful behold blaze blood bosom brave breast breathed bright Briseïs Calypso Chapman chariot chief Chorus Clytemnestra Cowper dead death delight Diomed divine dreadful Dryden earth Eëtion Eschylus eyes fate father fear fire flame Glaucus glorious glory goddess godlike gods golden Grecian Greece Greek grief groans hand hath head hear heart heaven Hector Helen hero heroic Homer honour host Iliad illustrious immortal Jove king knew light look Menelaus mighty mind Minerva moon mortal mountain Myrmidons Nausicaa never night noble o'er palace Pallas passion Patroclus Peleus Pelides pity poet poetry Pope Pope's pour'd Priam Prince shield shine sire slain song sorrow Sotheby Sotheby's soul spake speak spear spirit stars stood sublime Symmons tears Telemachus tent thee Thetis thou translation Trojans Troy Ulysses voice weeping wife words wrath δὲ καὶ
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61 페이지 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
78 페이지 - Yet, while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee : Alas ! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall. Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share : Oh ! prove a husband's and a father's care! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon wild fig-trees join the wall of Troy : Thou from this tower defend th...
394 페이지 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
392 페이지 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
92 페이지 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou!
58 페이지 - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
112 페이지 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
97 페이지 - ... at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom : Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
160 페이지 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
330 페이지 - Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.