A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians, who Have Recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy: In Answer to Two Late Publications of Mr. Bryant. With a Map and Plates |
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... Iliad are " feldom to be found in romance or fable . " He nevertheless immediately declares his disbelief of the whole ftory , and even of the existence of the far - famed City , the object of the war ; which in his opinion was never ...
... Iliad are " feldom to be found in romance or fable . " He nevertheless immediately declares his disbelief of the whole ftory , and even of the existence of the far - famed City , the object of the war ; which in his opinion was never ...
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... Iliad , and NOTE . * Libanius was tutor to Julian , and his authority therefore refpecting the ftate of early Greece , is entitled to very little attention ( if any ) when controverted by the ancient hiftorians . the the family of Homer ...
... Iliad , and NOTE . * Libanius was tutor to Julian , and his authority therefore refpecting the ftate of early Greece , is entitled to very little attention ( if any ) when controverted by the ancient hiftorians . the the family of Homer ...
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... Iliad we hear of an expedition to Colchos ; but without having recourfe to what looks like fable , I will ask if the fact is not sufficiently proved by the history of the times ? * From Diodorus Siculus we receive the following account ...
... Iliad we hear of an expedition to Colchos ; but without having recourfe to what looks like fable , I will ask if the fact is not sufficiently proved by the history of the times ? * From Diodorus Siculus we receive the following account ...
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... circumftance which happened during the war ; in fhort , that the Iliad is true upon the whole , though it be not what Mr. Bryant feems to expect - a Trojan Gazette . Yet On the exaggerated fuperiority of the Gre- Yet it is ( 20 )
... circumftance which happened during the war ; in fhort , that the Iliad is true upon the whole , though it be not what Mr. Bryant feems to expect - a Trojan Gazette . Yet On the exaggerated fuperiority of the Gre- Yet it is ( 20 )
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... Iliad only records the events of a few months , fo that Homer's filence on these subjects proves li- terally nothing relative to the rest of the time during which the fiege is faid to have lafted . * We know that the shipping was con ...
... Iliad only records the events of a few months , fo that Homer's filence on these subjects proves li- terally nothing relative to the rest of the time during which the fiege is faid to have lafted . * We know that the shipping was con ...
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Page 85 - Mean-time the * Monarch of the watery main Obferv'd the Thunderer, nor obferv'd in vain. In Samothracia, on a mountain's brow, Whofe waving woods o'erhung the deeps below, 20 He fate ; and round him caft his azure eyej, Where Ida's mifty tops confus'dly rife ; * Neptune.
Page 88 - Mark how resistless through the floods he goes, And boldly bids the warring gods be foes ! But nor that force, nor form divine to sight...
Page 87 - Where the high watch-tower overlooks the plain ; Now where the fig-trees fpread their umbrage broad (A wider compafs) fmoke along the road. Next by Scamander's double fource they bound...
Page 49 - And frantic Passions hear thy soft control. On Thracia's hills the Lord of War Has curbed the fury of his car And dropped his thirsty lance at thy command. Perching on the...
Page 90 - Tlic cold spring gushes out from four or five crevices at the foot of the rock, which forms the foreground of this picture. At the small distance here delineated, another spring arises, which, at the time I was there, was of considerable warmth.
Page 76 - There feems befides to be ftill lefs reafon for fuppofing it to have exifted in Egypt. Conjectures upon Homer's life and writings may be anfwered by other conjectures, but in reality as they prove nothing, they need not be anfwered at all...
Page 85 - Thunderer, nor obferv'd in vain. In Samothracia, on a mountain's brow, Whofe waving woods o'erhung the deeps below, 1r» He fate; and round him caft his azure eyes, Where Ida's mifty tops confus'dly rife ; B z Below* * Neptune.
Page 32 - ... a crowd of unwarranted names to fupport them. Nor can we but admire at the contradictory nature of this proceeding; that names of works, which either never were in being, or never worthy to live...
Page 3 - B's.) ftatements are always perfectly fair: And, if he finds, that interpretations are given by him to clafjka!