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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 232
by English poets - 1790
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1720 - 284 pages
...around ; BOOK XX. HOMER's ILIAD. His back fcarce turn'd, the felian rw'lin gor'J' ; T And flretch'd the fervant o'er his dying Lord. As when a flame the winding valley fills, 70 And runs on Crackling fhrnbs between the hills ; Then o'er the ftubbte np trie mountain flies, •...
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1756 - 246 pages
...proftrate mailer rein'd the fteeds around , His back fcarce turn'd the Pelian jav'lin gor'd ; And flretch'd the fervant o'er his dying Lord. As when a flame the...mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the fides, This w-", and that, the fpreading torrent roars; So fweeps the hero thro' the wafted fhores;...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 3

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 464 pages
...chapter of grandeur and fublimity, and, without reafoning, will be evident from the following inftances. As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling fhrubs between the hills, Then o'er the ftubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the ikies, This way...
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Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II].

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 578 pages
...chapter of grandeur and fublimity; and, without reafoning, will be evident from the following inftances. As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling fhrubs between the hills, Then o'er the ftubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the fldes, This way...
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Elements of Criticism..

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1772 - 398 pages
...of grandeur and fublimity; and, without reafoning, will be evident from the following inftances. • As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling fhrubs between the hills, • Then o'er the ftubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the fkies, This...
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The Iliad, Volume 25

Homer - 1773 - 234 pages
...mafter, rein'd the deeds around : His back fcarce tiirn'd, the Pelian jav'lin gor'd ; And (Iretch'd the fervant o'er his dying lord. As when a flame the...fills, And runs on crackling fhrubs between the hills; Then o'er the (lubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the fkies; This way...
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Extracts from mr. Pope's translation corresponding with The beauties of ...

Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...ghofts fhall pay. ". ' Atbilles purfues the Trojans with great Daughter. /.:. Ver. 569 — ,.- 590; ; As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling fhrubs between the hills; . ' * v^ Then o'er the ftubble up the mountain flies, . .A\\ « Fires the high woods, and blazes to...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...The The fquire, who faw expiring on the ground 565 His proftrate mafter, rein'd the fteeds around i His back fcarce turn'd, the Pelian javelin gor'd,...flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling (hrubs between the hills ; 57* Then o'er the ftubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 36

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 422 pages
...lord. As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling (hrubs between the hills ; 57* Then o'er the ftubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and blazes to the flcies, This way and that tfce fpreading torrent roars ; So fweeps the hero through the svaftwl mores:...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 pages
...rein'd the fteeds around : His back fcarce turn'd, the Pelian javelin gor'd, And ftretch'd thefervant o'er his dying lord. As when a flame the winding valley fills, And runs on crackling (hn:bs between the hills ; 570 Then o'er the ftubble up the mountain flies, Fires the high woods, and...
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