The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - English essays |
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Page 90
... HOMER has excelled all the Heroic Poets that ever wrote in the Multitude and Variety of his Characters . Every God that is admitted into his Poem , as a Part which would have been fuitable to no other Deity . His Princes are as much ...
... HOMER has excelled all the Heroic Poets that ever wrote in the Multitude and Variety of his Characters . Every God that is admitted into his Poem , as a Part which would have been fuitable to no other Deity . His Princes are as much ...
Page 113
... Homer is cenfured by the Criticks for his Defect as to this Par- ticular in feveral parts of the Iliad and Odyssey , tho ' at the fame time those , who have treated this great Poet with Candour , have attributed this Defect to the Times ...
... Homer is cenfured by the Criticks for his Defect as to this Par- ticular in feveral parts of the Iliad and Odyssey , tho ' at the fame time those , who have treated this great Poet with Candour , have attributed this Defect to the Times ...
Page 115
... Homer any where falls into the Faults above - mentioned , which were indeed the falfe Refinements of later Ages . Milton , it must be confeft , has fometimes erred in this Refpect , as I fhall fhew more at large in another Paper ; tho ...
... Homer any where falls into the Faults above - mentioned , which were indeed the falfe Refinements of later Ages . Milton , it must be confeft , has fometimes erred in this Refpect , as I fhall fhew more at large in another Paper ; tho ...
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