The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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Page viii
... firft breathed into it by Homer . I fhall begin with confider- ing him in this part , as it is naturally the firft , and I speak of it both as it means the defign of a poem , and as it is taken for fiction . Fable may be divided into ...
... firft breathed into it by Homer . I fhall begin with confider- ing him in this part , as it is naturally the firft , and I speak of it both as it means the defign of a poem , and as it is taken for fiction . Fable may be divided into ...
Page cxviii
... firft of thefe was Zenodotus , library - keeper to the first Ptolemy , and qualified for this undertaking by being both a Poet and a Grammarian : but nei- ther his copy nor that which his disciple Aristo- phanes had made , fatisfying ...
... firft of thefe was Zenodotus , library - keeper to the first Ptolemy , and qualified for this undertaking by being both a Poet and a Grammarian : but nei- ther his copy nor that which his disciple Aristo- phanes had made , fatisfying ...
Page cxlv
... firft and was approved : they who imitated << W it , took off the measures , but still preserved " all the other parts of poetry in their writings : " fuch were Cadmus the Milefian , Pherecydes , " and Hecatæus . Then their followers ...
... firft and was approved : they who imitated << W it , took off the measures , but still preserved " all the other parts of poetry in their writings : " fuch were Cadmus the Milefian , Pherecydes , " and Hecatæus . Then their followers ...
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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