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... fecret fate defign'd , " What mighty toils to either hoft remain , What fcenes of grief , and numbers of the flain ! Eager he rifes , and in fancy hears The voice celeftial murmuring in his ears . First on his limbs a flender veft he ...
... fecret fate defign'd , " What mighty toils to either hoft remain , What fcenes of grief , and numbers of the flain ! Eager he rifes , and in fancy hears The voice celeftial murmuring in his ears . First on his limbs a flender veft he ...
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... fecret council ipoke . Jove loves our chief , from Jove his honour springs , Beware for dreadful is the wrath of kings . But if a clamorous vile plebeian rofe , Him with reproof he check'd , or tam'd with blows . Be ftill , thou flave ...
... fecret council ipoke . Jove loves our chief , from Jove his honour springs , Beware for dreadful is the wrath of kings . But if a clamorous vile plebeian rofe , Him with reproof he check'd , or tam'd with blows . Be ftill , thou flave ...
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... fecret own'd refiftlefs beauty's power : They cried , No wonder fuch celeitial charms For nine long years have fet the world in arms ; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a Goddefs , and the looks a Queen Yet hence , oh ...
... fecret own'd refiftlefs beauty's power : They cried , No wonder fuch celeitial charms For nine long years have fet the world in arms ; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a Goddefs , and the looks a Queen Yet hence , oh ...
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... fecret foul was mov'd ; She fcorn'd the champion , but the man she lov❜d . Fair Venus ' neck , her eyes that sparkled fire , And breaft , reveal'd the Queen of foft defire . Struck with her prefence , ftraight the lively red Forlook ...
... fecret foul was mov'd ; She fcorn'd the champion , but the man she lov❜d . Fair Venus ' neck , her eyes that sparkled fire , And breaft , reveal'd the Queen of foft defire . Struck with her prefence , ftraight the lively red Forlook ...
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... fecret anger fwell'd Minerva's breaft , The prudent Goddefs yet her wrath supprest ; But Juno , impotent of paffion , broke , Her fullen filence , and with fury spoke : Shall then , O tyrant of th ' aetherial reign ! My schemes , my ...
... fecret anger fwell'd Minerva's breaft , The prudent Goddefs yet her wrath supprest ; But Juno , impotent of paffion , broke , Her fullen filence , and with fury spoke : Shall then , O tyrant of th ' aetherial reign ! My schemes , my ...
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Page 18 - 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 iv - Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist. In one we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty...
Page 329 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 34 - Lo, seven are offer'd, and of equal charms. Then hear, Achilles ! be of better mind ; Revere thy roof, and to thy guests be kind ; And know the men, of all the Grecian host, Who honour worth, and prize thy valour most.
Page 94 - But least, the sons of Priam's hateful race. Die then, my friend! what boots it to deplore? The great, the good Patroclus is no more! He, far thy better, was foredoom'd to die, And thou, dost thou bewail mortality?
Page 400 - O'erleaps the fences of the nightly fold, And tears the peaceful flocks: with silent awe Trembling they lie, and pant beneath his paw. Nor with less rage Euryalus employs The wrathful sword, or fewer foes destroys; But on th' ignoble crowd his fury flew; He Fadus, Hebesus, and Rhoetus slew.
Page iv - Homer, what principally strikes us is his invention. It is that which forms the character of each part of his work; and accordingly we find it to have made his fable more...
Page iv - Italian operas, will find more sweetness, variety, and majesty of sound, than in any other language or poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the critics...
Page 102 - And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death; To the dark realm the spirit wings its way (The manly body left a load of clay,) And plaintive glides along the dreary coast, A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost! Achilles, musing as he roll'd his eyes O'er the dead hero, thus (unheard) replies; Die thou the first! When Jove and Heaven ordain, I follow thee...
Page 329 - His words are not only chosen, but the places in which he ranks them for the sound. He who removes them from the station wherein their master set them spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his: they must be read in order as they lie; the least breath discomposes them and somewhat of their divinity is lost.