The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorJ. Walker, 1806 - 651 pagina's |
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Pagina 121
Alexander Pope. Amphion there the loud creating lyre Strikes , and behold a sudden Thebes aspire ! Cythæron's echoes answer to his call , And half the mountain rolls into a wall : There might you see the lengthening spires ascend , The ...
Alexander Pope. Amphion there the loud creating lyre Strikes , and behold a sudden Thebes aspire ! Cythæron's echoes answer to his call , And half the mountain rolls into a wall : There might you see the lengthening spires ascend , The ...
Pagina 167
... Thebes , having by mistake slain his father Laïus , and married his mother Jocasta , put out his own eyes , and resigned the realm to his sons , Eteocles and Polynices . Being neglected by them , he makes his prayer to the fury Tisi ...
... Thebes , having by mistake slain his father Laïus , and married his mother Jocasta , put out his own eyes , and resigned the realm to his sons , Eteocles and Polynices . Being neglected by them , he makes his prayer to the fury Tisi ...
Pagina 168
... Thebes alarms , The alternate reign destroy'd by impious arms , Demand our song ; a sacred fury fires My ravish'd breast , and all the muse inspires . O goddess ! say , shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times ...
... Thebes alarms , The alternate reign destroy'd by impious arms , Demand our song ; a sacred fury fires My ravish'd breast , and all the muse inspires . O goddess ! say , shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times ...
Pagina 169
... Theban wars an humbler theme may chuse : Of furious hate surviving death , she sings , A fatal throne to two contending kings , And funeral flames , that parting wide in air Express the discord of the souls they bear : Of towns ...
... Theban wars an humbler theme may chuse : Of furious hate surviving death , she sings , A fatal throne to two contending kings , And funeral flames , that parting wide in air Express the discord of the souls they bear : Of towns ...
Pagina 172
... Thebes her flight ; With eager speed the well - known journey took , Nor here regrets the Hell she late forsook . A hundred snakes her gloomy visage shade , A hundred serpents guard her horrid head , In her sunk eye - balls dreadful ...
... Thebes her flight ; With eager speed the well - known journey took , Nor here regrets the Hell she late forsook . A hundred snakes her gloomy visage shade , A hundred serpents guard her horrid head , In her sunk eye - balls dreadful ...
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