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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... poem . Every thing in it has manners ( as Ariftotle expreffes it ) that is , every thing is acted or spoken . It is hardly credible in a work of fuch length , how small a number of lines are employ'd in narration . In Virgil the dra ...
... poem . Every thing in it has manners ( as Ariftotle expreffes it ) that is , every thing is acted or spoken . It is hardly credible in a work of fuch length , how small a number of lines are employ'd in narration . In Virgil the dra ...
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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 ... poem requir'd a contrary character : It is thus that Rapin judges in his comparifon of Homer and Virgil . Others ...
... Poets ought to have always in his eye . Some accuse him for the fame things which they overlook or praise in the other ... poem requir'd a contrary character : It is thus that Rapin judges in his comparifon of Homer and Virgil . Others ...
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... poem , fuch as the fable , manners , and fentiments , no tranflator can prejudice it but by wilful omiffions or contractions . As it alfo breaks out in every particular image , defcrip- tion , and fimile ; whoever leffens or too much ...
... poem , fuch as the fable , manners , and fentiments , no tranflator can prejudice it but by wilful omiffions or contractions . As it alfo breaks out in every particular image , defcrip- tion , and fimile ; whoever leffens or too much ...
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... poets , and are become familiar thro ' their ufe of them ; fuch as the cloud - compelling Jove , c . As for the reft , whenever any can be as fully and fignificantly expreft in a fingle word as in a compounded one , the courfe to be ...
... poets , and are become familiar thro ' their ufe of them ; fuch as the cloud - compelling Jove , c . As for the reft , whenever any can be as fully and fignificantly expreft in a fingle word as in a compounded one , the courfe to be ...
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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