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... Iliad * ; where it ought not to have been admitted : and which Dryden has but rarely used in his Virgil . Our author feldom writes many lines together without an antithefis . It must be allowed fometimes to add ftrength to a fentiment ...
... Iliad * ; where it ought not to have been admitted : and which Dryden has but rarely used in his Virgil . Our author feldom writes many lines together without an antithefis . It must be allowed fometimes to add ftrength to a fentiment ...
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... , & pedibus qui fpargat arenam . Alluding to the prizes that Achilles beftows in the games of Homer . Iliad . 23. b . Ver . 67 . For For furely that vice deferves the keenest invective , which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 159 .
... , & pedibus qui fpargat arenam . Alluding to the prizes that Achilles beftows in the games of Homer . Iliad . 23. b . Ver . 67 . For For furely that vice deferves the keenest invective , which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 159 .
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... ( Iliad , b . 13. v . 12. ) γῆ ἐπ ' ακροτάτης κορυφης Σαμς ύληςσσης , Θρηικίης " ενθεν γαρ εφαίνετο πασα μεν Ίδη , Φαινετο δε Πριάμοιο πολις , και νηες Αχαιών . THOSE Who are fond of generalities , may think the number of natural , little ...
... ( Iliad , b . 13. v . 12. ) γῆ ἐπ ' ακροτάτης κορυφης Σαμς ύληςσσης , Θρηικίης " ενθεν γαρ εφαίνετο πασα μεν Ίδη , Φαινετο δε Πριάμοιο πολις , και νηες Αχαιών . THOSE Who are fond of generalities , may think the number of natural , little ...
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Joseph Warton. fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad and the Odyffey might be quoted as examples of this way of writing . So different from the unfinished , half - formed figures , prefented to us by many modern writers . How ...
Joseph Warton. fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad and the Odyffey might be quoted as examples of this way of writing . So different from the unfinished , half - formed figures , prefented to us by many modern writers . How ...
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... Iliad . The real faults of that translation are of a different kind , They are fuch , as remind us of Nero's gilding a brazen ftatue of Alexander the Great , caft by Lyfippus . down to piddling Tibalds . YET this very dull and laborious ...
... Iliad . The real faults of that translation are of a different kind , They are fuch , as remind us of Nero's gilding a brazen ftatue of Alexander the Great , caft by Lyfippus . down to piddling Tibalds . YET this very dull and laborious ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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