The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... translation , I doubt not many have been led into that error by the fhortness of it , which proceeds not from his fol- lowing the original line by line , but from the contractions abovementioned . He fometimes omits whole fimiles and ...
... translation , I doubt not many have been led into that error by the fhortness of it , which proceeds not from his fol- lowing the original line by line , but from the contractions abovementioned . He fometimes omits whole fimiles and ...
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... translate He has left us only the first book , and a small part of the fixth ; in which if he has in fome places not ... translation I know in any language . But the fate of great geniufes is like that of great minifters , though they C ...
... translate He has left us only the first book , and a small part of the fixth ; in which if he has in fome places not ... translation I know in any language . But the fate of great geniufes is like that of great minifters , though they C ...
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... sense has a beauty in this verse from the circumstance Me- nelaus is defcribed in , which determined the translator to use it . VOL . I. K " Till vain of mortals empty praise , he strove BOOK II . 129 HOMER'S ILIAD .
... sense has a beauty in this verse from the circumstance Me- nelaus is defcribed in , which determined the translator to use it . VOL . I. K " Till vain of mortals empty praise , he strove BOOK II . 129 HOMER'S ILIAD .
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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