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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... means of conferring fo much celebrity upon the pen of HOMER , that whilst the historians of all ages recorded the event , the Poets embellished and obfcured a plain tale with every charm of fiction . Relying on this general , if not ...
... means of conferring fo much celebrity upon the pen of HOMER , that whilst the historians of all ages recorded the event , the Poets embellished and obfcured a plain tale with every charm of fiction . Relying on this general , if not ...
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... means perfonally in- jured , and who had little or no connexion with Menelaus and Agamemnon . * This with Mr. Bryant is an infuperable diffi- culty , but what reafon have we to to fuppofe that they were NOTE . * A story so analogous to ...
... means perfonally in- jured , and who had little or no connexion with Menelaus and Agamemnon . * This with Mr. Bryant is an infuperable diffi- culty , but what reafon have we to to fuppofe that they were NOTE . * A story so analogous to ...
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... means fupplied with provifions , and that the different independent forces which combined in the war were kept together by a participation in the plunder . Agamemnon would have fhewn himself a very impo- litic general if he had acted ...
... means fupplied with provifions , and that the different independent forces which combined in the war were kept together by a participation in the plunder . Agamemnon would have fhewn himself a very impo- litic general if he had acted ...
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... mean time I would wish to fix the attention of the reader the manner in which he has amplified this interesting difcovery . quotes the paffage from Strabo , ‡ and fets out in his tranflation of it , by making Troy a town , which in the ...
... mean time I would wish to fix the attention of the reader the manner in which he has amplified this interesting difcovery . quotes the paffage from Strabo , ‡ and fets out in his tranflation of it , by making Troy a town , which in the ...
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... means the fame city as Troy , and that it is itself an inftance of a confiderable place founded under the very fame circumftances . Were there no other towns founded by fugitives ? and were Carthage and Magna Græcia , Ionia , Æolia ...
... means the fame city as Troy , and that it is itself an inftance of a confiderable place founded under the very fame circumftances . Were there no other towns founded by fugitives ? and were Carthage and Magna Græcia , Ionia , Æolia ...
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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!