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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 ...
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IO ΤΗ HE plan of this poem is formed upon anger and its ill effects , the plan of Virgil's upon pious refignation and its rewards ; and thus every paffion or virtue may be the foundation of the scheme of an Epic poem .
IO ΤΗ HE plan of this poem is formed upon anger and its ill effects , the plan of Virgil's upon pious refignation and its rewards ; and thus every paffion or virtue may be the foundation of the scheme of an Epic poem .
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The ancients have afcribed to Homer the first sketch of Satyric or Comic poetry , of which fort was his poem called Margites , as Ariftotle reports . Though that piece be loft , this character of Therfites may give us a taste of his ...
The ancients have afcribed to Homer the first sketch of Satyric or Comic poetry , of which fort was his poem called Margites , as Ariftotle reports . Though that piece be loft , this character of Therfites may give us a taste 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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