The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... should write treatises ; that others should call up spirits about it ; that thus , in fhort , heaven , earth and hell fhould be fought to , for the decision of a question which terminates in curiofity only . His Parents . If we ...
... should write treatises ; that others should call up spirits about it ; that thus , in fhort , heaven , earth and hell fhould be fought to , for the decision of a question which terminates in curiofity only . His Parents . If we ...
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... should be made on the other . While we pass through the feveral heads of science , the state of those times in which he writ will fhow us both the impediments he rose under , and the reasons why feveral things in him which have been ob ...
... should be made on the other . While we pass through the feveral heads of science , the state of those times in which he writ will fhow us both the impediments he rose under , and the reasons why feveral things in him which have been ob ...
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... should run off in the rapidity of Dactyls . This art he is allowed to have used in other places , and Virgil has been particularly celebrated for it . . 8. Will of fove . ] Plutarch in his treatise of reading po- ets , interprets Ads in ...
... should run off in the rapidity of Dactyls . This art he is allowed to have used in other places , and Virgil has been particularly celebrated for it . . 8. Will of fove . ] Plutarch in his treatise of reading po- ets , interprets Ads in ...
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Achilles againſt Agamemnon ancient anſwer Atrides beauty becauſe beſt cauſe Chalcis chief Chios compariſon criticks defcends defign deſcribes deſcription Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fays fceptre feems fhall fhews fhips fhore fhould fide fimile fince firft firſt fome fpeech fpirit ftadia ftill ftories fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks Heroes himſelf Homer honour Ibid Idomeneus Iliad imagine itſelf Jove Jupiter juſt King laſt Leo Allatius Lycurgus Macrobius Madam Dacier moft moſt muſt Neftor Nireus o'er obferved occafion paffage paffion Pauf Peneus perfons Phthiotis pleaſure Plutarch poem Poet poetry pow'r praiſe preferved Prieſt Princes promiſe Pteleon racter raiſe reaſon repreſenting rife ſays ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhips ſhore ſkies ſome ſpeak ſpoken ſtate Statius ſtill ſtory Strab ſtrength Suidas thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion tranflation Trojan Troy Ulyffes uſed verſe Virgil warriours whofe whoſe wiſdom καὶ