The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the AuthorBaldwin and Cradock, 1837 |
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Achaians Achilles address'd Æneas Agamemnon Ajax answer'd Apollo Argives Argos arm'd arms Asius Atreus Atrides bade battle beneath beside bespake bold brave bright call'd ceased chariot Chief coursers daughter dauntless deep Diomede dread Epeans Eurypylus father fell field fierce fight fill'd fire fleet flew force gates Gerenian glorious Goddess Godlike Gods Greece Greecians Greeks hand hath heard heart heaven Hector Helen Hero Homer honour host Idomeneus Iliad Ilium illustrious Jove Jove's Juno King lest loud loved Lycian Mars Meantime Menelaus Minerva Nestor night noble numerous o'er Oeneus Olympian once Pallas Paris pass'd Patroclus Peleus pierced prayer Priam renown'd replied return'd rush'd Sarpedon Saturnian Jove sceptre seized shield ships side sire slain slew smote sons spake spear steeds stood swift Telamonian Ajax tent Teucer thee thine thou art thou hast thou shalt towers Trojans Troy turn'd Tydeus Tydides Ulysses valiant warlike warrior wounded wrath
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Page ix - that no person familiar with both can read either without being reminded of the other; and it is in those breaks and pauses to which the numbers of the English poet are so much indebted, both for their dignity and variety, that he chiefly copies the Grecian.
Page 318 - Have heaved it from the earth up to a wain ; He swung it easily alone, — so light The son of Saturn made it in his hand.
Page 205 - Big with great purposes and proud, they sat, Not disarray'd, but in fair form disposed Of even ranks, and watch'd their numerous fires. As when around the clear bright moon, the stars Shine in full splendour, and the winds are hush'd, The groves, the mountain-tops, the headland heights Stand all apparent, not a vapour streaks The boundless blue, and ether open'd wide ; All glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd.
Page iii - No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
Page xxxv - ACHILLES sing, O Goddess! Peleus' son; His wrath pernicious, who ten thousand woes Caused to Achaia's host, sent many a soul Illustrious into Ades premature, And Heroes gave (so stood the will of Jove...
Page 318 - To guard them, and one bolt secured the bars. He stood fast by them, parting wide his feet For 'vantage sake, and smote them in the midst. He burst both hinges ; inward fell the rock Ponderous, and the portals...
Page xiii - It is difficult to kill a sheep with dignity in a modern language, to flay and to prepare it for the table, detailing every circumstance of the process. Difficult also, without...
Page xiii - Difficult also, without sinking below the level of poetry, to harness mules to a wagon, particularizing every article of their furniture, straps, rings, staples, and even the tying of the knots that kept all together. HOMER, who writes always to the eye, with all his sublimity and grandeur, has the minuteness of a Flemish painter.
Page 318 - In leap'd the godlike Hero at the breach, Gloomy as night in aspect, but in arms All-dazzling, and he grasp'd two quivering spears.
Page 229 - Thou should'st not be thus merciless ; the Gods, Although more honourable, and in power And virtue thy superiors, are themselves Yet placable ; and if a mortal man Offend them by transgression of their laws, 620 Libation, incense, sacrifice, and prayer, In meekness offer'd turn their wrath away.