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This is a field in which no fucceeding poets could dispute with Homer ; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in ...
This is a field in which no fucceeding poets could dispute with Homer ; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in ...
Page 56
... of the Iliad are reprefented to have happened ; and perhaps by that means farther explain the beauty and propriety of many paffages in the poem . -Y 1 Next on the shore their hecatomb they land , 570 56 Book I , HOMER's ILIA D.
... of the Iliad are reprefented to have happened ; and perhaps by that means farther explain the beauty and propriety of many paffages in the poem . -Y 1 Next on the shore their hecatomb they land , 570 56 Book I , HOMER's ILIA D.
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Fifthly , the feveral artful compliments he paid by this means to his own country in general , and many of his contemporaries in particular , by a celebration of the genealogies , ancient feats , and dominions of the great men of his ...
Fifthly , the feveral artful compliments he paid by this means to his own country in general , and many of his contemporaries in particular , by a celebration of the genealogies , ancient feats , and dominions of the great men of his ...
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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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