The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... those general phrases and manners of expreffion , which have at- tained a veneration even in our language from being used in the Old Teftament ; as on the other , to avoid those which have been appropriated to the Divinity , and in a ...
... those general phrases and manners of expreffion , which have at- tained a veneration even in our language from being used in the Old Teftament ; as on the other , to avoid those which have been appropriated to the Divinity , and in a ...
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... those strokes of knowledge from the whole circle of arts and sciences , which the fubject demanded , either for neceffity or ornament . And fecondly , it should be observed , that many of those No- tions , which his great Genius drew ...
... those strokes of knowledge from the whole circle of arts and sciences , which the fubject demanded , either for neceffity or ornament . And fecondly , it should be observed , that many of those No- tions , which his great Genius drew ...
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... those faults which has with moft juftice been objected to our Author . It is not to be de- nied but the account must be tedious , of what the reader had been juft before informed ; and efpecially when we are given to understand it was ...
... those faults which has with moft juftice been objected to our Author . It is not to be de- nied but the account must be tedious , of what the reader had been juft before informed ; and efpecially when we are given to understand it was ...
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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