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 expreffed 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 expreffed by felecting fuch circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively ...
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... met with Ogilby's translation of Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness and infipidity of the verfification , arrested * See his Works , vol . 4. pag , 18 . The his attention by the force of the story . his 80 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... met with Ogilby's translation of Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness and infipidity of the verfification , arrested * See his Works , vol . 4. pag , 18 . The his attention by the force of the story . his 80 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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... Homer ; CUR NON ILLI QUOQUE EADEM FURTA TENTARENT ? VERUM INTELLECTUROS , FACILIUS ESSE HERCULI CLAVUM , QUAM HOMERO VERSUM SURRIPERE . † 17 * The Jefuits that wrote the journals of Trevoux ftrongly object plagiarism to Boileau . + ...
... Homer ; CUR NON ILLI QUOQUE EADEM FURTA TENTARENT ? VERUM INTELLECTUROS , FACILIUS ESSE HERCULI CLAVUM , QUAM HOMERO VERSUM SURRIPERE . † 17 * The Jefuits that wrote the journals of Trevoux ftrongly object plagiarism to Boileau . + ...
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... Homer and the Greek tragedians have been likewife cenfured , the former for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the latter , for continuing the AJAX and PHOENISS¯ , after the deaths of their respective heroes . But the ...
... Homer and the Greek tragedians have been likewife cenfured , the former for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the latter , for continuing the AJAX and PHOENISS¯ , after the deaths of their respective heroes . But the ...
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... Homer , by only faying , that as the anger of Achilles does not die with Hector , but perfecutes his very remains , the poet ftill keeps up to his subject by describing the many effects of that anger , ' till it is fully fatisfied : and ...
... Homer , by only faying , that as the anger of Achilles does not die with Hector , but perfecutes his very remains , the poet ftill keeps up to his subject by describing the many effects of that anger , ' till it is fully fatisfied : and ...
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