The hymns of Homer; the Batrachomyomachia; and two original poetical hymns (The shadow of night) by G. Chapman. With an intr. preface by S.W. SingerChiswick, 1818 - 12 pages |
Other editions - View all
The Hymns of Homer: The Batrachomyomachia; And Two Original Poetical Hymns ... . Homerus No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
affect Anchises Apollo arms Batrachomyomachia bear beasts beauty Ben Jonson beneath birth blest born bosom bright brought brows Bussy d'Ambois call'd cast counsels crown crown'd CUMA darts dear death deities delight divine doth earth eternal eyes fair fame fane fate fear feet fiery fire flew flow'r force frogs gave GEORGE CHAPMAN give glorious glory goddess gods golden grac'd grace hand hast hath heart heaven heavenly Hermes hill Homer honour honour'd horse Hymns Iliad Ilythia immortals Inigo Jones Jonson Jove Jove's king labour lance Latona light live lute men's mice mind mortal muse never night nymphs Olympus Onchestus Otreus oxen Pallas periphrasis Phoebus poem poesy poets pow'rs praise Pylos reach'd retreat rich sacred seed shew shore show'd sight sing song soul spirits straight sweet temple thee thine things thou took translation turn'd Venus verses virtue wings
Popular passages
Page l - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shewn himself to be one; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Page viii - For although a Poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him...
Page l - He could not go out of himself, as Shakspeare could shift at pleasure, to inform and animate other existences, but in himself he had an eye to perceive and a soul to embrace all forms and modes of being.
Page xlviii - D'Ambois upon the theatre; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ; nothing but a cold dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten; and to sum up all, incorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense; or, at best, a scantling of wit,...
Page 26 - Are newly worn; and as sweet poesy Will not be clad in her supremacy With those strange garments (Rome's hexameters), As she is English ; but in right prefers Our native robes (put on with skilful hands English heroics) to those antic garlands...
Page 26 - Prone to delivery, and to yield the weight Of her dear burthen, with a world of ease. When with her fair hand she a palm did seize. And staying her by it, stuck her tender knees Amidst the soft mead; that did smile beneath Her sacred labour, and the child did breathe The air in th
Page 23 - Cytheron did fry In sightful fury of a solemn fire) Ascend thy chariot, and make earth admire Thy old swift changes, made a young fix'd prime, O let thy beauty scorch the wings of time, That fluttering he may fall before thine eyes, And beat himself to death before he rise: And as...
Page 118 - Sometimes (In quite oppos'd capriccios) he climbs The hardest rocks, and highest; every way Running their ridges. Often will convey Himself up to a watch-tow'r's top, where sheep Have their observance: oft through hills as steep His goals he runs upon, and never rests.
Page xiv - ... of Oration as are most apt for the language into which they are converted.
Page xv - In a word, the nature of the man may account for his whole performance; for he appears from his preface and remarks to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry.