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No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty , and as Homer has done this in invention , Virgil has in judgment . Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment , becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ...
No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty , and as Homer has done this in invention , Virgil has in judgment . Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment , becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ...
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us with an attractive majefty : Homer scatters with a generous profufion , Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence : Homer , like the Nile , pours out his riches with a boundless overflow ; Virgil , like a river in its banks , with a ...
us with an attractive majefty : Homer scatters with a generous profufion , Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence : Homer , like the Nile , pours out his riches with a boundless overflow ; Virgil , like a river in its banks , with a ...
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One may add to the foregoing comparison of these two authors , fome reasons for the length of Homer's , and the fhortnefs of Virgil's catalogues . As , that Homer might have a defign to fettle the geography of his country , there being ...
One may add to the foregoing comparison of these two authors , fome reasons for the length of Homer's , and the fhortnefs of Virgil's catalogues . As , that Homer might have a defign to fettle the geography of his country , there being ...
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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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