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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... because they find it easier for themselves to purfue their obfervations through an uniform and bounded walk of art , than to comprehend the vast and vari- ous extent of nature . Our author's work is a wild paradife , where if we cannot ...
... because they find it easier for themselves to purfue their obfervations through an uniform and bounded walk of art , than to comprehend the vast and vari- ous extent of nature . Our author's work is a wild paradife , where if we cannot ...
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... d all the world in more than one faculty , and as Homer has done this in invention , Virgil has in judgment . Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment ,. because becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; PREFACE .
... d all the world in more than one faculty , and as Homer has done this in invention , Virgil has in judgment . Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment ,. because becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; PREFACE .
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... because Achilles is not as good and perfect a Prince as Æneas , when the very moral of his poem requir'd a contrary character : It is thus that Rapin judges in his comparifon of Homer and Virgil . Others felect thofe particular paffages ...
... because Achilles is not as good and perfect a Prince as Æneas , when the very moral of his poem requir'd a contrary character : It is thus that Rapin judges in his comparifon of Homer and Virgil . Others felect thofe particular paffages ...
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... because he attempted every thing . A work of this kind seems like a mighty Tree which rifes from the moft vigorous feed , is improv'd with industry , flourishes , and produces the finest fruit ; nature and art confpire to raise it ...
... because he attempted every thing . A work of this kind seems like a mighty Tree which rifes from the moft vigorous feed , is improv'd with industry , flourishes , and produces the finest fruit ; nature and art confpire to raise it ...
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... because he neither " told his name , race , nor countrey , being afham'd " of his exile , to which his reputed father drove " him from among the confecrated youths , on ac- " count of that mark , which their Priests efteem'd a ...
... because he neither " told his name , race , nor countrey , being afham'd " of his exile , to which his reputed father drove " him from among the confecrated youths , on ac- " count of that mark , which their Priests efteem'd a ...
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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