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But is a Poet then to be imagined intirely ignorant of his fubject , tho ' he invokes the Mufe to relate the particulars ? may not Homer be allowed the knowledge of fo plain a truth , as that the will of God is fulfilled in all things ...
But is a Poet then to be imagined intirely ignorant of his fubject , tho ' he invokes the Mufe to relate the particulars ? may not Homer be allowed the knowledge of fo plain a truth , as that the will of God is fulfilled in all things ...
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Ev'n then the Greeks had left the hostile plain , And fate decreed the fall of Troy in vain ; But Jove's imperial Queen their flight survey'd , And fighing thus bespoke the blue - eyed maid , Shall then the Grecians fly !
Ev'n then the Greeks had left the hostile plain , And fate decreed the fall of Troy in vain ; But Jove's imperial Queen their flight survey'd , And fighing thus bespoke the blue - eyed maid , Shall then the Grecians fly !
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Next move to war the gen'rous Argive train , From high Træezenè , and Mafeta's plain , 676 And fair Ægina circled by the main : Whom strong Tyrinthe's lofty walls furround , And Epidaur with viny harvests crown'd : And where fair Afinen ...
Next move to war the gen'rous Argive train , From high Træezenè , and Mafeta's plain , 676 And fair Ægina circled by the main : Whom strong Tyrinthe's lofty walls furround , And Epidaur with viny harvests crown'd : And where fair Afinen ...
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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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