An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... Homer , are among their capital figures . THE influences and effects of peace , and its confequence , a diffufive commerce , are expref- fed by felecting fuch circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively ...
... Homer , are among their capital figures . THE influences and effects of peace , and its confequence , a diffufive commerce , are expref- fed by felecting fuch circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively ...
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... Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness and infipidity of the verfification , arrested * See his Works , vol . 4. pag , 18 . his attention by the force of the story . The his 80 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS quently order him to make ...
... Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness and infipidity of the verfification , arrested * See his Works , vol . 4. pag , 18 . his attention by the force of the story . The his 80 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS quently order him to make ...
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... Homer CUR NON ILLI QUOQUE EADEM FURTA TENTARENT ? VERUM INTELLECTUROS , FACILIUS ESSE HERCULI CLAVUM , QUAM HOMERO VERSUM SURRIPERE . † ; * The Jefuits that wrote the journals of Trevoux ftrongly object plagiarism to Boileau . + Donat ...
... Homer CUR NON ILLI QUOQUE EADEM FURTA TENTARENT ? VERUM INTELLECTUROS , FACILIUS ESSE HERCULI CLAVUM , QUAM HOMERO VERSUM SURRIPERE . † ; * The Jefuits that wrote the journals of Trevoux ftrongly object plagiarism to Boileau . + Donat ...
Page 132
... Homer and the Greek tra- gedians have been likewife cenfured , the for- mer for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the latter , for continuing the AJAX and PHOENISSA , after the deaths of their respective heroes . But ...
... Homer and the Greek tra- gedians have been likewife cenfured , the for- mer for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the latter , for continuing the AJAX and PHOENISSA , after the deaths of their respective heroes . But ...
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... Homer , by only say- ing , that as the anger of Achilles does not die with Hector , but perfecutes his very re- mains , the poet ftill keeps up to his fubject by defcribing the many effects of that anger , ' till it is fully fatisfied ...
... Homer , by only say- ing , that as the anger of Achilles does not die with Hector , but perfecutes his very re- mains , the poet ftill keeps up to his fubject by defcribing the many effects of that anger , ' till it is fully fatisfied ...
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