The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An essay on ... Homer [by T. Parnell].1720 |
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... action . If a council be call'd , or a battel fought , you are not coldly inform'd of what was faid or done as from a third perfon ; the reader is hurry'd out of himself by the force of the Poet's imagination , and turns in one place to ...
... action . If a council be call'd , or a battel fought , you are not coldly inform'd of what was faid or done as from a third perfon ; the reader is hurry'd out of himself by the force of the Poet's imagination , and turns in one place to ...
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... action is hurry'd on with the moft vehement fpirit , and its whole duration employs not fo much as fifty days . Virgil , for want of fo warm a genius , aided himself by taking in a more extenfive fubject , as well as a greater length of ...
... action is hurry'd on with the moft vehement fpirit , and its whole duration employs not fo much as fifty days . Virgil , for want of fo warm a genius , aided himself by taking in a more extenfive fubject , as well as a greater length of ...
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... action for thofe of Archemoras . If Ulyffes vifit the fhades , the Æneas of Virgil , and Scipio of Silius are fent ... actions agreeable to the nature of the things they fhadow'd ? This is a field in which no fucceeding Poets could ...
... action for thofe of Archemoras . If Ulyffes vifit the fhades , the Æneas of Virgil , and Scipio of Silius are fent ... actions agreeable to the nature of the things they fhadow'd ? This is a field in which no fucceeding Poets could ...
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... action defcrib'd : Ho- mer makes us hearers , and Virgil leaves us readers . If in the next place we take a view of the fenti- ments , the fame prefiding faculty is eminent in the fublimity and fpirit of his thoughts . Longinus has ...
... action defcrib'd : Ho- mer makes us hearers , and Virgil leaves us readers . If in the next place we take a view of the fenti- ments , the fame prefiding faculty is eminent in the fublimity and fpirit of his thoughts . Longinus has ...
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... action or figure . As a metaphor is a fhort fimile , one of thefe Epithets is a fhort description . Laftly , if we confider his verfification , we shall be fenfible what a share of praise is due to his invention in that . He was not ...
... action or figure . As a metaphor is a fhort fimile , one of thefe Epithets is a fhort description . Laftly , if we confider his verfification , we shall be fenfible what a share of praise is due to his invention in that . He was not ...
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Achilles Æneid againſt Agamemnon alfo ancient arms army Atrides battel beauty becauſe call'd caufe Chalcis character chief Chios compariſon defcending defcription defign Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fays fceptre fecond feems feen felf fenfe feveral fhall fhews fhining fhips fhore fhort fhould fide fight fimile fince fingle firft firſt flain fome fometimes fpeech fpirit ftand ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks heav'n Hector Heroes himſelf hoft Homer honour Ibid Idomeneus Iliad Jove juft Jupiter King laft lefs Leo Allatius Madam Dacier manner Menelaus moft moſt muſt Neftor Nireus o'er obferves occafion paffage paffion Pandarus Paris perfons plain pleaſure Plutarch poem Poet poetry pow'r praiſe prefent Priam Prince reafon reft reprefented rifing ſhall ſpeak Spondanus Strab Suidas thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflation Trojan troops Troy Ulyffes uſe verfe Virgil whofe words