The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... kind have arifen a fecond fort of ftories , which glance at Homer with malignant fuppofi-- tions , and endeavour to throw a diminishing air over his life , as a kind of answer to those who fought to aggrandize him injudiciously , Under ...
... kind have arifen a fecond fort of ftories , which glance at Homer with malignant fuppofi-- tions , and endeavour to throw a diminishing air over his life , as a kind of answer to those who fought to aggrandize him injudiciously , Under ...
Page 87
... kind of Rhetorick is of great ufe in all " occafions of danger , and of this Homer has afforded a most " powerful example in the oration of Agamemnon . It is a " method perfectly wonderful , and even carries in it an ap- ❝pearance of ...
... kind of Rhetorick is of great ufe in all " occafions of danger , and of this Homer has afforded a most " powerful example in the oration of Agamemnon . It is a " method perfectly wonderful , and even carries in it an ap- ❝pearance of ...
Page 137
... kind . The troops Methonè , or Thaumacia yields , Olizon's rocks , or Melibea's fields , 870 With Philoctetes fail'd , whofe matchless art , 874 From the tough bow directs the feather'd dart . . 871. The grace and glory of the beauteous ...
... kind . The troops Methonè , or Thaumacia yields , Olizon's rocks , or Melibea's fields , 870 With Philoctetes fail'd , whofe matchless art , 874 From the tough bow directs the feather'd dart . . 871. The grace and glory of the beauteous ...
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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