The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3Bernard Lintot, 1725 - Epic poetry |
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... Fable ; the foundation is hiftorical , becaufe the Poet does not entirely neglect truth ; the reft is fabulous , becaufe naked truth would not be fufficiently furpri zing ; for the Marvellous ought to take place , efpecially in Epic ...
... Fable ; the foundation is hiftorical , becaufe the Poet does not entirely neglect truth ; the reft is fabulous , becaufe naked truth would not be fufficiently furpri zing ; for the Marvellous ought to take place , efpecially in Epic ...
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... fables , by reciting them to a people who believed them , and who through a lazinefs of life were fond of romantic stories ; he adapts himself to his au- dience , and yet even here he is not unmindful of his more intelli- gent Readers ...
... fables , by reciting them to a people who believed them , and who through a lazinefs of life were fond of romantic stories ; he adapts himself to his au- dience , and yet even here he is not unmindful of his more intelli- gent Readers ...
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... fables Dreams , but adds , that they are the dreams of Jupiter ; he likewife blames thefe Epifodes , becaufe in all of them there is much more fable and narration than action : Which criticifm may perhaps be too fevere , if we confider ...
... fables Dreams , but adds , that they are the dreams of Jupiter ; he likewife blames thefe Epifodes , becaufe in all of them there is much more fable and narration than action : Which criticifm may perhaps be too fevere , if we confider ...
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... fable or allegory , cap . 1o . lib . 1 . By the winds inclofed in the bag , into which the companions of Ulyffes were fo unwife as to pry , is to be understood , that we ought not to intrude into thofe myfteries of government which the ...
... fable or allegory , cap . 1o . lib . 1 . By the winds inclofed in the bag , into which the companions of Ulyffes were fo unwife as to pry , is to be understood , that we ought not to intrude into thofe myfteries of government which the ...
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... fable or allegory : Homer intended to teach , as Euftathius remarks , that pleasure and fenfuality debase men into beafts . Thus Socrates understood it , as Xenophon informs us . Perhaps , adds Dacier , by the fawning wolves and lions ...
... fable or allegory : Homer intended to teach , as Euftathius remarks , that pleasure and fenfuality debase men into beafts . Thus Socrates understood it , as Xenophon informs us . Perhaps , adds Dacier , by the fawning wolves and lions ...
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Alcinous Anticlea Antients becauſe breaft caft call'd Charybdis Cimmerians Circe coaft companions confequently Dacier darkneſs death defcends defcribes defcription dire divine dreadful Epic Poetry Euftathius Eumans Eumaus Eurylochus Eurypylus ev'ry exprefs fable facred fafe faid fame fate fays feaft feem felf fenfe fhade fhall fhews fhip fhore fhould fignifies filence firft firſt flain fleep fome foul fpeaks ftand ftill ftory fuch gives Goddeſs Gods heav'n Hell herds Herodotus Heroe Hiftory himſelf Homer honour Ifland Iliad infernal inftance Jove King land Lipara loft moſt muſt Neptune night o'er obferves occafion Odyffey Orchomenos paffage perfon Phaacians Phorcys pleaſure Plutarch Poet Poetry pow'r prefent reafon reft reprefents rife rocks Scylla ſhe ſhore ſpeaks Strabo Symplegades Telegonus Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tirefias tranflated Ulyffes Ulyſſes underſtood uſed veffel verfe verſes Virgil whofe wife winds Wiſdom woes words καὶ