The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... used fuch diftinctive additions as better agreed with poetry . And indeed we have fomething parallel to these in modern times , fuch as the names of Harold Harefoot , Edmund Ironfide , Ed- ward Long - fbanks , Edward the black Prince ...
... used fuch diftinctive additions as better agreed with poetry . And indeed we have fomething parallel to these in modern times , fuch as the names of Harold Harefoot , Edmund Ironfide , Ed- ward Long - fbanks , Edward the black Prince ...
Page xcvi
... used to travel thither . Among these Diodorus reckons Homer , and to ftrengthen his opinion alledges that multitude of their notions which he has re- ceived into his poetry , and of their customs , to which he alludes in his fictions ...
... used to travel thither . Among these Diodorus reckons Homer , and to ftrengthen his opinion alledges that multitude of their notions which he has re- ceived into his poetry , and of their customs , to which he alludes in his fictions ...
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... used in the opening it ; and is one of 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 ...
... used in the opening it ; and is one of 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 ...
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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