The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An essay on ... Homer [by T. Parnell].1756 |
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... Speaking borfes , and Virgil his myrtles diftilling blood , where the latter has not fo much as contrived the easy intervention of a Deity to fave the probability . · It is owing to the fame vaft invention , that his Si- , miles have ...
... Speaking borfes , and Virgil his myrtles diftilling blood , where the latter has not fo much as contrived the easy intervention of a Deity to fave the probability . · It is owing to the fame vaft invention , that his Si- , miles have ...
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... speak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carry'd into extremes , both by the cen- furers and defenders of Homer . It must be a ftrange partiality to antiquity , to think with Madam Dacier , that thofe times and manners ...
... speak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carry'd into extremes , both by the cen- furers and defenders of Homer . It must be a ftrange partiality to antiquity , to think with Madam Dacier , that thofe times and manners ...
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... speak of the Verfification . Homer ( as has been faid ) is perpetually applying the found to the fenfe , and varying it on every new fubject . This is indeed one of the most exquifite beauties of poetry , and attainable by very few : I ...
... speak of the Verfification . Homer ( as has been faid ) is perpetually applying the found to the fenfe , and varying it on every new fubject . This is indeed one of the most exquifite beauties of poetry , and attainable by very few : I ...
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... speak of it not as a certainty , but as the tradition , opinion , or col- lection of authors , who have been supposed to write of Homer in thefe four preceding methods ; to which we alfo fhall add fome farther conjectures of our own ...
... speak of it not as a certainty , but as the tradition , opinion , or col- lection of authors , who have been supposed to write of Homer in thefe four preceding methods ; to which we alfo fhall add fome farther conjectures of our own ...
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... speak plainly of them , were to fpeak contemptibly ; or that we debafe them , when they are placed in lefs glorious company than thofe exalted fpi rits which they themselves have been fond to celebrate . We may however in , fome measure ...
... speak plainly of them , were to fpeak contemptibly ; or that we debafe them , when they are placed in lefs glorious company than thofe exalted fpi rits which they themselves have been fond to celebrate . We may however in , fome measure ...
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Achilles againſt Agamemnon alfo ancient anſwer arms army Atrides beauty becauſe caufe cauſe Chalcis character chief Chios compariſon defcribes defcription defign defire Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fhall fhews fhining fhips fhore fhort fhould fide fight fimile fince fingle firft firſt flain fome fomething fometimes fpeech fpirit ftill ftory fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks heav'n Hector Heroes himſelf Homer honour hoſt Ibid Iliad Jove juft Jupiter juſt King laft Leo Allatius Madam Dacier manner Menelaus moft moſt muſt Mycena Neftor Nireus o'er obferves occafion paffage paffion Pandarus Paris perfons plain Plutarch poem Poet poetry pow'r praiſe prefent preferved Priam Prince Pteleon raiſed reafon rife ſeems ſhall ſhe Spondanus ſtand Strabo Suidas thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflation Trojan troops Troy Ulyffes uſed verfe Virgil warriors whofe whoſe wiſdom words καὶ
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Page 28 - When wert thou known in ambufh'd fights to dare, Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 *Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try. Thine to look on, and bid the Valiant die. So much 'tis fafer through the camp to go, And rob a