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a battle fought , you are not coldly informed of what was faid or done as from a third perfon ; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the Poet's imagination , and turns in one place to a hearer , in another to a spectator ...
a battle fought , you are not coldly informed of what was faid or done as from a third perfon ; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the Poet's imagination , and turns in one place to a hearer , in another to a spectator ...
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She afcends to Heaven , and he being left to himself , falls again upon his General with bitter expreffions . The allegory here may be allowed by every reader to be unforced : the prudence of Achilles checks him in the rashest moment of ...
She afcends to Heaven , and he being left to himself , falls again upon his General with bitter expreffions . The allegory here may be allowed by every reader to be unforced : the prudence of Achilles checks him in the rashest moment of ...
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He knew that a friend to mirth often diverts or ftops quarrels , especially when he contrives to submit himself to the laugh , and prevails on the angry to part in good humour , or in a difpofition to friendship ; when grave The ...
He knew that a friend to mirth often diverts or ftops quarrels , especially when he contrives to submit himself to the laugh , and prevails on the angry to part in good humour , or in a difpofition to friendship ; when grave The ...
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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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