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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... it is impoffible to treat the fubjects in any living language . There are two peculiarities in Homer's diction which are a fort of marks or moles , by which every common eye . eye distinguishes him at firft fight : Those who are PREFACE .
... it is impoffible to treat the fubjects in any living language . There are two peculiarities in Homer's diction which are a fort of marks or moles , by which every common eye . eye distinguishes him at firft fight : Those who are PREFACE .
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Homerus. eye distinguishes him at firft fight : Those who are not his greatest admirers look upon them as defects , and those who are feem pleas'd with them as beauties . 1 fpeak of his compound epithets , and of his repetitions . Many ...
Homerus. eye distinguishes him at firft fight : Those who are not his greatest admirers look upon them as defects , and those who are feem pleas'd with them as beauties . 1 fpeak of his compound epithets , and of his repetitions . Many ...
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... fight of his performances , lofes the common idea of a man in the fancied fplendor of perfection : It fees nothing lefs than a God worthy to be his Father , nothing less than a Prophetess deferving to be his nurfe ; and , growing ...
... fight of his performances , lofes the common idea of a man in the fancied fplendor of perfection : It fees nothing lefs than a God worthy to be his Father , nothing less than a Prophetess deferving to be his nurfe ; and , growing ...
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... fight of him . The hero grants his poet's petition , and rifes in a glorious fuit of armour , which cast so unfufferable a splendor , that Homer loft his eyes while he gazed for the inlargement of his notions . If this be any thing more ...
... fight of him . The hero grants his poet's petition , and rifes in a glorious fuit of armour , which cast so unfufferable a splendor , that Homer loft his eyes while he gazed for the inlargement of his notions . If this be any thing more ...
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... fight of " these , and follow'd intirely the scheme fhe had drawn . " But this is a wild ftory , which fpeaks of an Egyptian woman with a Greek name , and who never was heard of but upon this account . It appears indeed from his ...
... fight of " these , and follow'd intirely the scheme fhe had drawn . " But this is a wild ftory , which fpeaks of an Egyptian woman with a Greek name , and who never was heard of but upon this account . It appears indeed from his ...
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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