The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... fhews itself in raising fuch a number of infinuations that clash with each other , and in fpiriting up fuch a croud of unwarranted names to fupport them . Nor can we but admire at the contradictory nature of this proceeding ; that names ...
... fhews itself in raising fuch a number of infinuations that clash with each other , and in fpiriting up fuch a croud of unwarranted names to fupport them . Nor can we but admire at the contradictory nature of this proceeding ; that names ...
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... fhews a man but little in that light in which he was moft famous , and has hardly any thing correfpondent to the idea we entertain of him : fuch a life , I fay , will never answer rightly the demand the world has upon an historian . Yet ...
... fhews a man but little in that light in which he was moft famous , and has hardly any thing correfpondent to the idea we entertain of him : fuch a life , I fay , will never answer rightly the demand the world has upon an historian . Yet ...
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... fhews him , at leaft , to have had patrons of a generous fpirit ; who ob- ferving the vastnefs of his capacity , believed themselves beneficent to mankind , while they < x Paterculus . l . I. vitâ Hom . Diod . Sic . l . 3 . * Procl ...
... fhews him , at leaft , to have had patrons of a generous fpirit ; who ob- ferving the vastnefs of his capacity , believed themselves beneficent to mankind , while they < x Paterculus . l . I. vitâ Hom . Diod . Sic . l . 3 . * Procl ...
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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