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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... circumstance , by which truth extends the frontiers of her empire , greatly weakens her internal powers of defence , and lulled into fecurity by the num- ber of her adherents she is too often unprepared to ward off the attacks against ...
... circumstance , by which truth extends the frontiers of her empire , greatly weakens her internal powers of defence , and lulled into fecurity by the num- ber of her adherents she is too often unprepared to ward off the attacks against ...
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... circumstances which have contributed to place him in the rank of an historian as well as a poet , and allows that the characteristicks of the Iliad are " feldom to be found in romance or fable . " He nevertheless immediately declares ...
... circumstances which have contributed to place him in the rank of an historian as well as a poet , and allows that the characteristicks of the Iliad are " feldom to be found in romance or fable . " He nevertheless immediately declares ...
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... , and affigns that of revenge for the infult he had received . See Troades . † Hom . Il . i , 150. - Bryant on the Trojan War , p . 13 . Thucydides Thucydides was aware of all these obnoxious circumstances re- lative ( 8 )
... , and affigns that of revenge for the infult he had received . See Troades . † Hom . Il . i , 150. - Bryant on the Trojan War , p . 13 . Thucydides Thucydides was aware of all these obnoxious circumstances re- lative ( 8 )
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... circumstances re- lative to the manners of the heroic ages and yet never confidered them as objections to the truth of Homer's ftory . No analogy con- clufive from the first Thefeus . The fame chapter however contains another objection ...
... circumstances re- lative to the manners of the heroic ages and yet never confidered them as objections to the truth of Homer's ftory . No analogy con- clufive from the first Thefeus . The fame chapter however contains another objection ...
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... circumstances of rudeness and barbarifm which form the ground work of Mr. Bryant's argument , are in reality the proofs of its futility . Armies are much sooner levied in barbarous and uncivilifed countries , where no commerce employs ...
... circumstances of rudeness and barbarifm which form the ground work of Mr. Bryant's argument , are in reality the proofs of its futility . Armies are much sooner levied in barbarous and uncivilifed countries , where no commerce employs ...
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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!