The Whole Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: Including His Translations of Homer's Iliad and OdysseyP. Wogan, 1804 - 479 pages |
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... shall remain ; And prayers , and tears , and brib s , shall plead in vain ; Till time fhall rifle every youthful grace , And age difmifs her from my cold embrace , In daily labours of the loom employ'd , Or doom'a to deck the bed the ...
... shall remain ; And prayers , and tears , and brib s , shall plead in vain ; Till time fhall rifle every youthful grace , And age difmifs her from my cold embrace , In daily labours of the loom employ'd , Or doom'a to deck the bed the ...
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... Shall humble to the duft her lofty towers . 155 160 powers 165 170 180 Is this the pay our blood and toils deferve ; Difgrac'd and injur'd by the man we serve ? And dar'ft thou threat to fnatch my prize away , Due to the deeds of many a ...
... Shall humble to the duft her lofty towers . 155 160 powers 165 170 180 Is this the pay our blood and toils deferve ; Difgrac'd and injur'd by the man we serve ? And dar'ft thou threat to fnatch my prize away , Due to the deeds of many a ...
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... Shall then the Grecians fly ! O dire difgrace ! And leave unpunith'd this perfidious race ? Shall Troy , fhall Priam , and th ' adulterous fpoufe , 195 In peace enjoy the fruits of broken vows ? And braveft chiefs , in Helen's quarrel ...
... Shall then the Grecians fly ! O dire difgrace ! And leave unpunith'd this perfidious race ? Shall Troy , fhall Priam , and th ' adulterous fpoufe , 195 In peace enjoy the fruits of broken vows ? And braveft chiefs , in Helen's quarrel ...
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... Shall wafte the form , whofe crime it was to please . The king of kings , Atrides , you furvey , 235 Great in the war , and great in arts of fway : 230 240 My brother once , before my days of shame 34 . HOME R. POPE'S.
... Shall wafte the form , whofe crime it was to please . The king of kings , Atrides , you furvey , 235 Great in the war , and great in arts of fway : 230 240 My brother once , before my days of shame 34 . HOME R. POPE'S.
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... Shall Heaven by peace the bleeding kingdoms fpare , Or rouze the Furies , and awake the war ? Yet , would the Gods for human good provide , Atrides foon might gain his beauteous bride , Still Priam's walls in peaceful honours grow , 25 ...
... Shall Heaven by peace the bleeding kingdoms fpare , Or rouze the Furies , and awake the war ? Yet , would the Gods for human good provide , Atrides foon might gain his beauteous bride , Still Priam's walls in peaceful honours grow , 25 ...
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Achilles Ajax Alcinous Antilochus arms Atrides bleft bold brave breaft caft caufe chief courfers crown'd death defcends divine dreadful duft Eurymachus Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate feas fhade fhall fhining fhips fhore fhould fide field fierce fight filver fire firft fkies flain flames fleep flies foft fome forrows foul fpear fpoke fpread ftand ftill ftream fuch fure fury glory Goddeſs Gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks hand heart Heaven Hector hero himſelf hoft honours Idomeneus Ilion Jove juft king laft lefs loft lord mighty Mufe muft muſt numbers nymph o'er paffion Pallas Patroclus Peleus plain praife Priam prince queen race rage reft rife rofe round ſhall ſhore ſkies ſtand ſtate tears Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan Troy Ulyffes vafe whofe wife woes wound youth
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Page 389 - Some scruple rose, but thus he eas'd his thought : '•' I'll now give sixpence where I gave a groat ; Where once I went to church I'll now go twice — And am so clear too of all other vice.
Page 324 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a Matadore, Then each according to the rank they bore ; For Sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, 35 Are, as when women, wond'rous fond of place.
Page 3 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Page 368 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 3 - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and...
Page 324 - And tremble at the sea that froths below !' He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend; Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend; Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair; Some hang upon the pendants of her ear: 140 With beating hearts the dire event they wait, Anxious, and trembling for the birth of Fate.
Page 383 - I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 56 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 22 - be patient, and obey: Dear as you are, if Jove his arm extend, I can but grieve, unable to defend. What god so daring in your aid to move, Or lift his hand against the force of Jove? Once in your cause I felt his matchless might, 760 Hurl'd headlong downward from th...
Page 310 - Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day : 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.