A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey. West's Pindar. Dryden's Virgil. Persius & Juvenal. Pitt's Aeneid. Rowe's LucanJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1792 |
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Page iv
... fuch actions as though they did not happen , yet might , in the common courfe of nature or of such as , though they did , be- come fables by the additional episodes and man- ner of telling them . Of this fort is the main sto- ry of an ...
... fuch actions as though they did not happen , yet might , in the common courfe of nature or of such as , though they did , be- come fables by the additional episodes and man- ner of telling them . Of this fort is the main sto- ry of an ...
Page v
... fuch dif- ferent kinds of deaths , that no two heroes are wounded in the fame manner ; and fuch a profu- fion of noble ideas , that every battle rifes above the last in greatness , horror , and confufion . It is certain there is not ...
... fuch dif- ferent kinds of deaths , that no two heroes are wounded in the fame manner ; and fuch a profu- fion of noble ideas , that every battle rifes above the last in greatness , horror , and confufion . It is certain there is not ...
Page vii
... fuch as the far - darting Phoebus , the bine - eyed Pallas , the swift - footed Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and todically repeated . Thofe of the gods depended apon the powers and offices then believed to be ...
... fuch as the far - darting Phoebus , the bine - eyed Pallas , the swift - footed Achilles , & c . which fome have cenfured as impertinent and todically repeated . Thofe of the gods depended apon the powers and offices then believed to be ...
Page viii
... ( fuch as the contention of the cities , & c . ) to be the caufes of his fame , which were in reality the confequences of his merit . The fame might as well be faid of Virgil , or any great author , whofe general cha- racter will ...
... ( fuch as the contention of the cities , & c . ) to be the caufes of his fame , which were in reality the confequences of his merit . The fame might as well be faid of Virgil , or any great author , whofe general cha- racter will ...
Page ix
... fuch places where Apollo is reprefented as a god in perfon , I would ufe the former inter- pretation ; and where the effects of the fun are defcribed , I would make choice of the latter . Upon the whole , it will be neceffary to avoid ...
... fuch places where Apollo is reprefented as a god in perfon , I would ufe the former inter- pretation ; and where the effects of the fun are defcribed , I would make choice of the latter . Upon the whole , it will be neceffary to avoid ...
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