The Whole Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: Including His Translations of Homer's Iliad and OdysseyP. Wogan, 1804 - 479 pages |
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... winds begin to roar , Burft their dark manfions in the clouds , and fweep The whitening furface of the ruffled deep , And as on corn when western gufts defcend , Before the blaft the lofty harvests bend : 180 Thus o'er the field the ...
... winds begin to roar , Burft their dark manfions in the clouds , and fweep The whitening furface of the ruffled deep , And as on corn when western gufts defcend , Before the blaft the lofty harvests bend : 180 Thus o'er the field the ...
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... winds arife , Shoot their long beams , and kindle half the fkies : So from the polish'd arms , and brazen fhields , A gleamy fplendour flash'd along the fields . Not lefs their puniber than th ' embody'd cranes , 540 Or milk - white ...
... winds arife , Shoot their long beams , and kindle half the fkies : So from the polish'd arms , and brazen fhields , A gleamy fplendour flash'd along the fields . Not lefs their puniber than th ' embody'd cranes , 540 Or milk - white ...
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... wind , And fair Mantinea's ever pleasing fite ; 730 735 740 In fixty fail th ' Arcadian bands unite . Bold Agapenor , glorious at their head , ( Ancæus fon ) the mighty fquadron led , Their fhips , fupply'd by Agamemnon's care , Through ...
... wind , And fair Mantinea's ever pleasing fite ; 730 735 740 In fixty fail th ' Arcadian bands unite . Bold Agapenor , glorious at their head , ( Ancæus fon ) the mighty fquadron led , Their fhips , fupply'd by Agamemnon's care , Through ...
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... winds through liquid air ; In Priam's porch the Trojan chiefs the found , The old confulting , and the youths around . Polites ' shape , the monarch's fon , the chose , 960 Who from Æfetes ' tomb obferv'd the foes , High on the mound ...
... winds through liquid air ; In Priam's porch the Trojan chiefs the found , The old confulting , and the youths around . Polites ' shape , the monarch's fon , the chose , 960 Who from Æfetes ' tomb obferv'd the foes , High on the mound ...
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... winds , afcending by degrees , First move the whitening furface of the feas , The billows float in order to the fhore , The wave behind rolls on the wave before ; Till , with the growing storm , the deeps arise , Foam o'er the rocks ...
... winds , afcending by degrees , First move the whitening furface of the feas , The billows float in order to the fhore , The wave behind rolls on the wave before ; Till , with the growing storm , the deeps arise , Foam o'er the rocks ...
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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.