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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 ...
Page 65
... Homer to him for three years ; after which time Boccace founded a lecture for the explanation of the Iliad and Odyffey . After Boccace's death , the republic of Flo- rence invited Emanuel Chryfcloras , a nobleman of Conftan- tinople ...
... Homer to him for three years ; after which time Boccace founded a lecture for the explanation of the Iliad and Odyffey . After Boccace's death , the republic of Flo- rence invited Emanuel Chryfcloras , a nobleman of Conftan- tinople ...
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... Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadnefs and / infipidity of the verfification , arrested his attention by the force of the ftory . The Ovid of Sandys fell next in his way ; and it is said , that the raptures these translations gave ...
... Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadnefs and / infipidity of the verfification , arrested his attention by the force of the ftory . The Ovid of Sandys fell next in his way ; and it is said , that the raptures these translations gave ...
Page 99
... Homer ; " CUR NON ILLI QUOQUE EADEM FURTA TENTARENT ? VERUM IN- TELLECTUROS , FACILIUS ESSE HERCULI CLAVUM , QUAM HOMERO VERSUM , SUR- RIPERE . " + Donat . in Vit . Virgil . H 2 SECT 7 SECT . III . Of the ESSAY on Criticifm . AND ...
... Homer ; " CUR NON ILLI QUOQUE EADEM FURTA TENTARENT ? VERUM IN- TELLECTUROS , FACILIUS ESSE HERCULI CLAVUM , QUAM HOMERO VERSUM , SUR- RIPERE . " + Donat . in Vit . Virgil . H 2 SECT 7 SECT . III . Of the ESSAY on Criticifm . AND ...
Page 132
... Homer and the Greek tragedians have been like- wife cenfured , the former for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the * Characteristics , vol . I. 12mo , pag . 163 . * Αρισον μιν ΥΔΩΡ . + Ver . 119 . latter , · latter ...
... Homer and the Greek tragedians have been like- wife cenfured , the former for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the * Characteristics , vol . I. 12mo , pag . 163 . * Αρισον μιν ΥΔΩΡ . + Ver . 119 . latter , · latter ...
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