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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... plain tale with every charm of fiction . Relying on this general , if not univerfal affent , we add our own tacit acquiefcence to an opinion prevalent through a long fucceffion of ages . Sceptics , it is true , have appeared upon this ...
... plain tale with every charm of fiction . Relying on this general , if not univerfal affent , we add our own tacit acquiefcence to an opinion prevalent through a long fucceffion of ages . Sceptics , it is true , have appeared upon this ...
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... plain story there is nothing very incredible . Mr. Bryant , however , collecting together the miraculous ftories related by different Greek authors , fees nothing on every fide but a mafs of impene- trable fiction . * The fupernatural ...
... plain story there is nothing very incredible . Mr. Bryant , however , collecting together the miraculous ftories related by different Greek authors , fees nothing on every fide but a mafs of impene- trable fiction . * The fupernatural ...
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... plain historical fact . Far from palliating or apologifing for the abfur- dity of these collateral ftories , I fhall boldly affert that I do not perceive how any inference can be drawn from them to invalidate facts which partake not of ...
... plain historical fact . Far from palliating or apologifing for the abfur- dity of these collateral ftories , I fhall boldly affert that I do not perceive how any inference can be drawn from them to invalidate facts which partake not of ...
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... plain of Troy , accounts for the destruction of this work of the part fuch as to be Grecians by a miraculous intervention of Jupiter , Neptune , and Apollo . Jupiter he fays poured down inceffant rains , whilst Nep- tune and Apollo ...
... plain of Troy , accounts for the destruction of this work of the part fuch as to be Grecians by a miraculous intervention of Jupiter , Neptune , and Apollo . Jupiter he fays poured down inceffant rains , whilst Nep- tune and Apollo ...
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... plain as given us by Homer . As I shall in the second part of this work discuss the topography of the country , more particularly , the reader will there find an answer to his arguments , as well as to every other where he treats of the ...
... plain as given us by Homer . As I shall in the second part of this work discuss the topography of the country , more particularly , the reader will there find an answer to his arguments , as well as to every other where he treats of the ...
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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!