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For this reafon ( not a want of morality in him ) we fee a boasting temper and unmanaged roughness in the fpirit of his Heroes , which ran out in pride , anger , or cruelty . It is not in him as in our modern Romances , where men are ...
For this reafon ( not a want of morality in him ) we fee a boasting temper and unmanaged roughness in the fpirit of his Heroes , which ran out in pride , anger , or cruelty . It is not in him as in our modern Romances , where men are ...
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He cavils firft at the Poet's infifting fo much upon the effects of Achilles's anger , That it was " the cause of the " woes of the Greeks , " that it " sent so many heroes to " the fhades , " that " their bodies were left a prey to ...
He cavils firft at the Poet's infifting fo much upon the effects of Achilles's anger , That it was " the cause of the " woes of the Greeks , " that it " sent so many heroes to " the fhades , " that " their bodies were left a prey to ...
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A Godlike race of Heroes once I knew , 345 Such , as no more thefe aged eyes fhall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ' fame , Dryas the bold , or Ceneus ' deathless name ; Thefeus , endu'd with more than mortal might ...
A Godlike race of Heroes once I knew , 345 Such , as no more thefe aged eyes fhall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous ' fame , Dryas the bold , or Ceneus ' deathless name ; Thefeus , endu'd with more than mortal might ...
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| Title | The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1 The Iliad of Homer, Alexander Pope |
| Author | Homer |
| Translated by | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | Charles Rivington, 1760 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 25, 2006 |
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