The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... fire like a chariot - wheel , by its own rapidity . Exact difpofition , just thought , correct elocution , polished num- bers , may have been found in a thou- fand ; but this political fire , this Vivida vis animi , in a very few . Even ...
... fire like a chariot - wheel , by its own rapidity . Exact difpofition , just thought , correct elocution , polished num- bers , may have been found in a thou- fand ; but this political fire , this Vivida vis animi , in a very few . Even ...
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... Fire is difcerned in Virgil , but difcerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more fhining than fierce , but every where equal and con- ftant in Lucan and Statius , it bursts out in fudden , fhort , and interrupted flashes in ...
... Fire is difcerned in Virgil , but difcerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more fhining than fierce , but every where equal and con- ftant in Lucan and Statius , it bursts out in fudden , fhort , and interrupted flashes in ...
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... fire infulted , and his gifts deny'd : Th ' infulted fire ( his God's peculiar care ) To Phœbus pray'd , and Phebus heard the pray'r : A dreadful plague enfues ; th ' avenging darts Inceffant fly , and pierce the Grecian hearts . A ...
... fire infulted , and his gifts deny'd : Th ' infulted fire ( his God's peculiar care ) To Phœbus pray'd , and Phebus heard the pray'r : A dreadful plague enfues ; th ' avenging darts Inceffant fly , and pierce the Grecian hearts . A ...
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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