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... hath made even th ' ablest agents err In these translations ; all so much apply Their pains and cunnings word for word to render Their patient authors , when they may as well Make fish with fowl , camels with whales , engender , Or ...
... hath made even th ' ablest agents err In these translations ; all so much apply Their pains and cunnings word for word to render Their patient authors , when they may as well Make fish with fowl , camels with whales , engender , Or ...
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... hath the Muses ' utterance heired For verse , and that sweet music to the ear Struck out of rhyme , so naturally as this . Our monosyllables so kindly fall , And meet oppos'd in rhyme as they did kiss . French and Italian most ...
... hath the Muses ' utterance heired For verse , and that sweet music to the ear Struck out of rhyme , so naturally as this . Our monosyllables so kindly fall , And meet oppos'd in rhyme as they did kiss . French and Italian most ...
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... hath a stone , & c . " Habington's pious wish , we are sure , will find an echo in many a breast . The great Translator of Homer deserves a record in the aisles of West- minster , as his respectable character forms a happy contrast to ...
... hath a stone , & c . " Habington's pious wish , we are sure , will find an echo in many a breast . The great Translator of Homer deserves a record in the aisles of West- minster , as his respectable character forms a happy contrast to ...
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... Hath render'd Homer in a genuine sence , Yea , and hath added to his eloquence : And in his comments his true sence doth show , Telling Spondanus what he ought to know . Eustathius , and all that on them take Great Homer's misticke ...
... Hath render'd Homer in a genuine sence , Yea , and hath added to his eloquence : And in his comments his true sence doth show , Telling Spondanus what he ought to know . Eustathius , and all that on them take Great Homer's misticke ...
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... hath brought to us Musæus , Homer , and Hesiodus . " I trust that this fact may give additional pleasure to the reader as he peruses " Old George's " fine Translations . But I cannot conclude without citing a rather unexpected testimony ...
... hath brought to us Musæus , Homer , and Hesiodus . " I trust that this fact may give additional pleasure to the reader as he peruses " Old George's " fine Translations . But I cannot conclude without citing a rather unexpected testimony ...
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Ajax amongst arms Atrides bear blood bold BOOK brave breast brought cast Chapman charge chariot command darts death Diomed divine doth earth edition ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fall fate father fear fell field fight fire fleet folio force friends gave give Gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks hand haste hath head hear heart heav'n Hector held hold Homer honour horse host Iliad Jove king lance leave light lives means mind never night original pow'r present princes printed rest rich round sacred says sent shield ships sire soldiers spake spirit stand stood strength strong sweet tent thee things thou thought took town translated Trojans Troy true turn Ulysses worth wound
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Página xix - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página xvi - Chapman writes and feels as a Poet — as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth."— Coleridge.
Página 151 - Without improvement. In this fire must Hector's trial shine ; Here must his country, father, friends, be, in him, made divine. And such a stormy day shall come (in mind and soul I know) When sacred Troy shall shed her tow'rs for tears of overthrow, When Priam, all his birth and pow'r shall in those tears be drown'd.
Página iii - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any Language truly translated, with a Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. RICHARD HOOPER. 2 vols.
Página 67 - All grave old men ; and soldiers they had been, but for age Now left the wars ; yet counsellors they were exceeding sage. And as in well-grown woods, on trees, cold spiny grasshoppers Sit chirping, and send voices out, that scarce can pierce our ears For softness...
Página 152 - This again will rub thy fruitful wounds To miss the man that to thy bands could give such narrow bounds. But that day shall not wound mine eyes; the solid heap of night Shall interpose and stop mine ears against thy plaints and plight.
Página 264 - O friend, if keeping back Would keep back age from us, and death, and that we might not wrack In this life's human sea at all, but that deferring now, We...
Página 35 - Than it could manage : anything with which he could procure Laughter, he never could contain. He should have yet been sure To touch no kings: t' oppose their states becomes not jesters parts.
Página xlii - Cause carefull heyers the wealthy onely have ; To build a glorious trouble o're the grave. Yet doe I not despaire, some one may be So seriously devout to Poesie As to translate his reliques, and finde roome In the warme Church, to build him up a tombe. Since Spencer hath a Stone ; and Draytons browes Stand petrefied ith...
Página xxiii - With exclamations of her rapture then, To vent it to the echoes of the vale ; When, meditating of me, a sweet gale Brought me upon thee ; and thou didst inherit My true sense, for the time then, in my spirit ; I And I, invisibly, went prompting thee To those fair greens where thou didst English me.