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... bodies : wherefore he took care to give them fuch as carried the utmost perfection of the human form ; and diftinguished them from each other even in this fuperior beauty , with fuch marks as were agreeable to each of the Deities .
... bodies : wherefore he took care to give them fuch as carried the utmost perfection of the human form ; and diftinguished them from each other even in this fuperior beauty , with fuch marks as were agreeable to each of the Deities .
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... of the Iliad are reprefented to have happened ; and perhaps by that means farther explain the beauty and propriety of many paffages in the poem . -Y 1 Next on the shore their hecatomb they land , 570 56 Book I , HOMER's ILIA D.
... of the Iliad are reprefented to have happened ; and perhaps by that means farther explain the beauty and propriety of many paffages in the poem . -Y 1 Next on the shore their hecatomb they land , 570 56 Book I , HOMER's ILIA D.
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A mere heap of proper names , though but for a few lines together , could afford little entertainment to an English reader , who probably could not be apprized either of the neceffity or beauty of this part of the Poem .
A mere heap of proper names , though but for a few lines together , could afford little entertainment to an English reader , who probably could not be apprized either of the neceffity or beauty of this part of the Poem .
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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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