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... 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...

A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians, who Have ... - Page 32
by John Bacon Sawrey Morritt - 1798 - 124 pages
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages

...in being, or never worthy to live, ftiould te produc'd only to perluade us that the moft lafting and beautiful poem of the ancients was taken out of them. A beggar might be content to patch up a gar'ment with fuch (hreds as the world throws away, but it is never...

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