The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... Grecian camp to ransom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The priest being refufed and infolently difmiffed by Agamem- non , intreats for vengeance from his God , who inflicts a peftilence ...
... Grecian camp to ransom her ; with which the action of the poem opens , in the tenth year of the fiege . The priest being refufed and infolently difmiffed by Agamem- non , intreats for vengeance from his God , who inflicts a peftilence ...
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... Grecian camp , occa- fioned perhaps by immoderate heats and grofs exhalations . At the introduction of this accident Homer begins his Poem , and takes occafion from it to open the scene of action with a moft beautiful allegory . He ...
... Grecian camp , occa- fioned perhaps by immoderate heats and grofs exhalations . At the introduction of this accident Homer begins his Poem , and takes occafion from it to open the scene of action with a moft beautiful allegory . He ...
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... Grecian hearts . A prophet then , infpir'd by heav'n arose , 495 And points the crime , and thence derives the woes : Myself the first th ' affembled chiefs incline 500 T'avert the vengeance of the pow'r divine ; Then rifing in his ...
... Grecian hearts . A prophet then , infpir'd by heav'n arose , 495 And points the crime , and thence derives the woes : Myself the first th ' affembled chiefs incline 500 T'avert the vengeance of the pow'r divine ; Then rifing in his ...
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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