A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey. West's Pindar. Dryden's Virgil. Persius & Juvenal. Pitt's Aeneid. Rowe's LucanJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1792 |
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Page viii
... muft have been the greateft poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of thofe who furpaffed him . In all these objections we fee nothing that con- tradicts his title to the honour of the chief ...
... muft have been the greateft poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of thofe who furpaffed him . In all these objections we fee nothing that con- tradicts his title to the honour of the chief ...
Page x
... muft hope to pleafe but a few ; thofe only who have at once a tafte of poe- try , and competent learning . For to fatisfy fuch as want either , is not in the nature of this under- taking ; fince a mere modern wit can like nothing that ...
... muft hope to pleafe but a few ; thofe only who have at once a tafte of poe- try , and competent learning . For to fatisfy fuch as want either , is not in the nature of this under- taking ; fince a mere modern wit can like nothing that ...
Page 4
... muft his fuperiors fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? Him muft our hofts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ? What king can bear a rival in his way ? Grant that the Gods his matchlefs force hath given ; Has foul reproach a ...
... muft his fuperiors fall , His word the law , and he the lord of all ? Him muft our hofts , our chiefs , ourselves obey ? What king can bear a rival in his way ? Grant that the Gods his matchlefs force hath given ; Has foul reproach a ...
Page 11
... Muft flake , and heavy will the vengeance fall ! But now , ye warriors , take a short repaft : And , well - refresh'd , to bloody conflict hafte . His sharpen'd fpear let every Grecian wield , And every Grecian fix his brazen fhield ...
... Muft flake , and heavy will the vengeance fall ! But now , ye warriors , take a short repaft : And , well - refresh'd , to bloody conflict hafte . His sharpen'd fpear let every Grecian wield , And every Grecian fix his brazen fhield ...
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... muft , beneath his rival's arms ; And live the reft , fecure of future harms . Two lambs , devoted by your country's rite , To Earth a fable , to the Sun a white , Prepare , ye Trojans while a third we bring Set to Jove , th ...
... muft , beneath his rival's arms ; And live the reft , fecure of future harms . Two lambs , devoted by your country's rite , To Earth a fable , to the Sun a white , Prepare , ye Trojans while a third we bring Set to Jove , th ...
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