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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 selecting fuch circumstances , as are beft 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 selecting fuch circumstances , as are beft 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 Odyssey . After Boccace's death , the republic of Flo- rence invited Emanuel Chryfoloras , 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 Odyssey . After Boccace's death , the republic of Flo- rence invited Emanuel Chryfoloras , a nobleman of Conftan- tinople ...
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... Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness 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 faid , that the raptures these translations gave ...
... Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness 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 faid , that the raptures these translations gave ...
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... 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 . SECT . III . Of the ESSAY on Criticism . 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 . SECT . III . Of the ESSAY on Criticism . AND ...
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... 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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