The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 37H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... FABLE OF THE ILIAD . N every design which a man deliberately under- takes , the end he propofes is the first thing in his mind , and that by which he governs the whole work , and all its parts : thus , fince the end of the Epick B 2 ...
... FABLE OF THE ILIAD . N every design which a man deliberately under- takes , the end he propofes is the first thing in his mind , and that by which he governs the whole work , and all its parts : thus , fince the end of the Epick B 2 ...
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... , has made two diftinct fables of them . The one is for Greece in general , united into one body , but compofed of parts independent on each each other ; and the other for each particular state 4 VIEW OF THE EPICK POEM , AND.
... , has made two diftinct fables of them . The one is for Greece in general , united into one body , but compofed of parts independent on each each other ; and the other for each particular state 4 VIEW OF THE EPICK POEM , AND.
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... fable this great truth ; That a mifunderstanding between princes is the ruin of their own states . " I fing 66 ( fays he ) the anger of Achilles , fo pernicious to " the Grecians , and the caufe of fo many heroes " deaths , occafioned ...
... fable this great truth ; That a mifunderstanding between princes is the ruin of their own states . " I fing 66 ( fays he ) the anger of Achilles , fo pernicious to " the Grecians , and the caufe of fo many heroes " deaths , occafioned ...
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... fable . Homer has made choice of the fiege of Troy , and feigned that this action happened there . To a phantom of his brain , whom he would paint valiant and cholerick , he has given the name of Achilles ; that of Agamemnon to his ...
... fable . Homer has made choice of the fiege of Troy , and feigned that this action happened there . To a phantom of his brain , whom he would paint valiant and cholerick , he has given the name of Achilles ; that of Agamemnon to his ...
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... FABLE OF THE ODYSS " HE Odyssey was not defigned , like one body , but for each ftate in particula is composed of two parts ; the head whic and the members which obey ; there ar requifite to both , to teach the one to go others to ...
... FABLE OF THE ODYSS " HE Odyssey was not defigned , like one body , but for each ftate in particula is composed of two parts ; the head whic and the members which obey ; there ar requifite to both , to teach the one to go others to ...
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