The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... tion these two together , I fancy it will be no small pleasure to the benevolent part of mankind , to Suidas . Arguet ambiguè dictum ; mutando notabit ; Horat . Ars Poetica . Fiet Ariftarchus- fee how their fortunes and characters ftand ...
... tion these two together , I fancy it will be no small pleasure to the benevolent part of mankind , to Suidas . Arguet ambiguè dictum ; mutando notabit ; Horat . Ars Poetica . Fiet Ariftarchus- fee how their fortunes and characters ftand ...
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... , as if he tranfgreffed them . Horace has faid the Exordium of an Epic poem ought to be plain and modeft , and inftances Homer's as fuch ; and of his theology , different from Strabo's acceptă- tion of B 4 BOOK I. 7 HOMER'S ILIAD . > ...
... , as if he tranfgreffed them . Horace has faid the Exordium of an Epic poem ought to be plain and modeft , and inftances Homer's as fuch ; and of his theology , different from Strabo's acceptă- tion of B 4 BOOK I. 7 HOMER'S ILIAD . > ...
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... tion of the British and Irish rivers in the eleventh canto of his fourth book , is one of the nobleft in the world ; if we confider his fubject was more confined , and can excuse his not observing ' the order or courfe of the country ...
... tion of the British and Irish rivers in the eleventh canto of his fourth book , is one of the nobleft in the world ; if we confider his fubject was more confined , and can excuse his not observing ' the order or courfe of the country ...
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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