The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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Side 95
... Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it . But as for Milton , he had not only a few circumstances upon which to raise his poem , but was also obliged ...
... Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it . But as for Milton , he had not only a few circumstances upon which to raise his poem , but was also obliged ...
Side 96
... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and variety of his charac- ters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His princes are as much ...
... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and variety of his charac- ters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His princes are as much ...
Side 97
... Homer in the cha- racters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Æneas is indeed a perfect character ; but as for Achates , tho ' he is stiled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole poem which may deserve that ...
... Homer in the cha- racters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Æneas is indeed a perfect character ; but as for Achates , tho ' he is stiled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole poem which may deserve that ...
Side 98
... Homer's Odyssey is very much admired by Aristotle , as per- plexing that fable with very agreeable plots and in- tricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the subtilty of his behaviour , but by the various ...
... Homer's Odyssey is very much admired by Aristotle , as per- plexing that fable with very agreeable plots and in- tricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the subtilty of his behaviour , but by the various ...
Side 99
... Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ascribed to Uriel , Gabriel , Michael , or Raphael , which is not in a particular manner suitable to their respective characters . There is another circumstance in the principal actors of ...
... Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ascribed to Uriel , Gabriel , Michael , or Raphael , which is not in a particular manner suitable to their respective characters . There is another circumstance in the principal actors of ...
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