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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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2 -Say firft what cause Mov'd our grand parents , & c . And just after , Who firft feduc'd them to that foul revolt ? Befides that I think the propofition concludes more nobly with the sentence , Such was the will of Jove .
2 -Say firft what cause Mov'd our grand parents , & c . And just after , Who firft feduc'd them to that foul revolt ? Befides that I think the propofition concludes more nobly with the sentence , Such was the will of Jove .
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But firft , with caution , try what yet they dare , 95 Worn with nine years of unfuccessful war ? To move the troops to measure back the main , Be mine ; and yours the province to detain . He spoke , and fat ; when Neftor rising said ...
But firft , with caution , try what yet they dare , 95 Worn with nine years of unfuccessful war ? To move the troops to measure back the main , Be mine ; and yours the province to detain . He spoke , and fat ; when Neftor rising said ...
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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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