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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... Poet has by their manners . No- thing can be more exact than the diftinctions he has obferv'd in the different degrees of virtues and vices . The fingle quality of courage is wonderfully diverfi- fy'd in the feveral characters of the ...
... Poet has by their manners . No- thing can be more exact than the diftinctions he has obferv'd in the different degrees of virtues and vices . The fingle quality of courage is wonderfully diverfi- fy'd in the feveral characters of the ...
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... Poet ; tho every one has affifted himself with a great quantity out of him : And it is evident of Virgil especially , that he has fcarce any comparisons which are not drawn from his matter . If we defcend from hence to the expreffion ...
... Poet ; tho every one has affifted himself with a great quantity out of him : And it is evident of Virgil especially , that he has fcarce any comparisons which are not drawn from his matter . If we defcend from hence to the expreffion ...
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... poet has not been fo frequently celebrated on this account as the Roman , the only reafon is , that fewer criticks have understood one language than the other . Dia- yfius of Halicarnaffus has pointed out many of our author's nyfius ...
... poet has not been fo frequently celebrated on this account as the Roman , the only reafon is , that fewer criticks have understood one language than the other . Dia- yfius of Halicarnaffus has pointed out many of our author's nyfius ...
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... Poets refemble the Heroes they celebrate : Homer , boundless and irrefiftible as A- chilles , bears all before him , and ( hines more and more as the tumult increafes ; Virgil , calmly daring like Eneas , appears undisturb'd in the ...
... Poets refemble the Heroes they celebrate : Homer , boundless and irrefiftible as A- chilles , bears all before him , and ( hines more and more as the tumult increafes ; Virgil , calmly daring like Eneas , appears undisturb'd in the ...
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... Poets ought to have always in his eye . Some accuse him for the fame things which they overlook or praise in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the neis to thofe of the Iliad , for the fame rea- fons which might fet ...
... Poets ought to have always in his eye . Some accuse him for the fame things which they overlook or praise in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the neis to thofe of the Iliad , for the fame rea- fons which might fet ...
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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