Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J.Woodward, 1836 |
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... Achilles and Atrides strove ; to pay ; he therefore received , including the two Such was the sovereign doom , and such the will of Jove . hundred pounds a volume , five thousand three hun- dred and twenty pounds four shillings without ...
... Achilles and Atrides strove ; to pay ; he therefore received , including the two Such was the sovereign doom , and such the will of Jove . hundred pounds a volume , five thousand three hun- dred and twenty pounds four shillings without ...
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... Achilles , yet includes in his poem the whole are so altered and interwoven with the rest , that se history of the Trojan war , in like manner our author veral have already been , and more will be , by the ig- hath drawn into this ...
... Achilles , yet includes in his poem the whole are so altered and interwoven with the rest , that se history of the Trojan war , in like manner our author veral have already been , and more will be , by the ig- hath drawn into this ...
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... Achilles and Æneas show us , that all already hear these carpers objecting to the clearness those are of small avail , without the constant assist - of our hero's title . ' It would never , ' say they , ' have been esteemed 1 Alluding ...
... Achilles and Æneas show us , that all already hear these carpers objecting to the clearness those are of small avail , without the constant assist - of our hero's title . ' It would never , ' say they , ' have been esteemed 1 Alluding ...
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... Achilles : if he fails , ' tis like the beloved Re - passes Lintot , vindicates the race , Nisus ; and ( what Homer makes to be the chief of all praises ) Nor heeds the brown dishonours of his face . he is favoured of the gods : he says ...
... Achilles : if he fails , ' tis like the beloved Re - passes Lintot , vindicates the race , Nisus ; and ( what Homer makes to be the chief of all praises ) Nor heeds the brown dishonours of his face . he is favoured of the gods : he says ...
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... Achilles is not and those who consider him in this light , will double as good a prince as Æneas , when the very moral of their pleasure in the perusal of him . Let them think his poem required a contrary character : it is thus that ...
... Achilles is not and those who consider him in this light , will double as good a prince as Æneas , when the very moral of their pleasure in the perusal of him . Let them think his poem required a contrary character : it is thus that ...
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