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Page 17
... Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision : but he has been so lavish of his poetical ...
... Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision : but he has been so lavish of his poetical ...
Page 48
... Iliad " had gratified succeeding ages with a little knowledge of himself ? - Perhaps no passages are more fre- quently or more attentively read than those ex- trinsic paragraphs ; and , since the end of poetry is pleasure , that cannot ...
... Iliad " had gratified succeeding ages with a little knowledge of himself ? - Perhaps no passages are more fre- quently or more attentively read than those ex- trinsic paragraphs ; and , since the end of poetry is pleasure , that cannot ...
Page 107
... Iliad " in English , intended as a specimen of a version of the whole . Considering into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice that this project went no further . The time was now at hand which was to put an end ...
... Iliad " in English , intended as a specimen of a version of the whole . Considering into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice that this project went no further . The time was now at hand which was to put an end ...
Page 114
... Iliad , " some years afterward , he departed from his own decision , and translated into rhyme . When he has any objection to obviate , or any license to defend , he is not very scrupulous about what he asserts , nor very cautious , if ...
... Iliad , " some years afterward , he departed from his own decision , and translated into rhyme . When he has any objection to obviate , or any license to defend , he is not very scrupulous about what he asserts , nor very cautious , if ...
Page 129
... Iliad " was , I believe , the last . The two first lines of Phaer's third " Eneid " will exemplify this measure : When Asia's state was overthrown and Priam's kingdom stout , All guiltless , by the power of gods above was rooted cut ...
... Iliad " was , I believe , the last . The two first lines of Phaer's third " Eneid " will exemplify this measure : When Asia's state was overthrown and Priam's kingdom stout , All guiltless , by the power of gods above was rooted cut ...
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