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" from what offended Power ? Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the camp with mountains of the dead ; The King of men his reverend prieft defy'd, And for the King's offence the people dy'd. Declare, O Goddefs, what offended Power Enflam'd... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 79
by Samuel Johnson - 1806
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 1

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 392 pages
...gure whatever : There being no Refemblance nor Proportion between Place and Duration. Latona's Son a dire Contagion fpread, And heap'd the Camp with Mountains of the Dead. Here the Tranflator, by rendering figuratively what Homer writes with fo much Simplicity, becomes both...
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1756 - 348 pages
...ojita rerttm magnititdine y C5* docifaii fumma cele~ ** rittr dsmfreben/a, JaritC* V...3 Latoxa's (on, a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the camp with mountains of the dead; The VI] MijW «>«& Qi Plutarch obferves there is a defect in the meafure of this firft fine (I fuppofe...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1

Homer - Greece - 1769 - 424 pages
...Jove. Declare, O Mufe ! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce ftrife, from what offended pow'r ? 10 Latona's fon, a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd...camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his rev'rend prielt defy'd, Aad for the king's offence the people dy*d. For Chryfes fought with coftly...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...Jove! Declare, O Mufe ! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce ftrife, from what offended power ? 10 Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the...defy'd, And for the king's offence the people dy'd. For Chryfes fought with coftly gifts to gain ij His captive daughter from the vigor's chain. Suppliant...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...Jove! Declare, O Mufe ! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce ftrife, from what offended power ? 19 Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the...defy'd, And for the king's offence the people dy'd. For Chryfes fought with coftly gifts to gain 15 His captive daughter from the vigor's chain. Suppliant...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 35

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...Jove! Declare, O Mufe ! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce ftrife, from what oflended power ? i0 Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the...men his reverend prieft defy'd, And for the king's oflence the people dy'd. * For Chryfes fought with coftly gifts to gain i5 His captive daughter from...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 398 pages
...Jove! Declare, O Mufe ! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce ftrife, from what oflended power ? 10 Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the...men his reverend prieft defy'd, And for the king's oflence the people dy'd. For Chryfes fought with coftly gifts to gain s5 His captive daughter from...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volumes 35-36

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 800 pages
...Sprung the fierce ltrife, from what offended power? so Lalona'. lbn a dire contagion (pread, And hcap'd the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverend prieR defy'd, And for the king's ofi¿nce the people dy'd. For Chryfes fought with colily gifts to...
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Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...doom, and fuch the will of Jove. Declare, O Mufe, in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce ftrife, from what offended Power ! Latona's fon a dire contagion...Goddefs, what offended Power Enflam'd their rage, in that ill-omen'd'hour; anger fatal, haplefs Phoebus himfelf the dire debate procur'd, fierce T' avenge the...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...Declare,. OMufe, in wliat'illTfated.hoiir Sprung the fierce flrife,. from what aff.-ruled Power I Latona'i fon- a 'dire contagion fpread; And heap'd the camp with mountains of five. dead-;.- ... ...... .... . J ; , , , • ••• •'• '• • • >• '.A The King. of...
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