The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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Page lviii
... never gra- tified the prejudices of particular parties , or the vanities of particular men . What- ever the success may prove , I fhall never repent of an undertaking in which I have experienced the candour and friendship 1 of fo many ...
... never gra- tified the prejudices of particular parties , or the vanities of particular men . What- ever the success may prove , I fhall never repent of an undertaking in which I have experienced the candour and friendship 1 of fo many ...
Page lxxv
... never were in being , or never worthy to live , fhould be produced only to perfuade us that the most lafting and beautiful poem of the an- cients was taken out of them . A beggar might be content to patch up a garment with fuch fhreds ...
... never were in being , or never worthy to live , fhould be produced only to perfuade us that the most lafting and beautiful poem of the an- cients was taken out of them . A beggar might be content to patch up a garment with fuch fhreds ...
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... never paffes with fudden leaps from place to place , omitting those which lie between ; but proceeding like a traveller in the way he has begun , conftantly returns to the place from whence he digreffed , till he finishes the whole ...
... never paffes with fudden leaps from place to place , omitting those which lie between ; but proceeding like a traveller in the way he has begun , conftantly returns to the place from whence he digreffed , till he finishes the whole ...
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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