The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, and Explanatory Notes : in Eight Volumes, Band 5Bell & Bradfute, 1816 - 2644 Seiten |
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... Homer , who is generally placed near the age of Solomon . I think there is no question but the poet in the preceding speech remembered those two passages , which are spoken on the like occasion , and filled with the same pleasing images ...
... Homer , who is generally placed near the age of Solomon . I think there is no question but the poet in the preceding speech remembered those two passages , which are spoken on the like occasion , and filled with the same pleasing images ...
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... Homer very severely upon this point , as M. Dacier has endeavoured to defend it . I will not pretend to determine , whether , in this par- ticular of Homer , the marvellous does not lose sight of the probable . As the miraculous ...
... Homer very severely upon this point , as M. Dacier has endeavoured to defend it . I will not pretend to determine , whether , in this par- ticular of Homer , the marvellous does not lose sight of the probable . As the miraculous ...
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... Homer in the last of the follow- ing lines.- At length into the limits of the north They came , and Satan took his royal seat High on a hill , far blazing , as a mount Rais'd on a mount , with pyramids and tow'rs From diamond quarries ...
... Homer in the last of the follow- ing lines.- At length into the limits of the north They came , and Satan took his royal seat High on a hill , far blazing , as a mount Rais'd on a mount , with pyramids and tow'rs From diamond quarries ...
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... Homer . My master seems as well pleased with my performances as any boy's in the same class . I think , if I know my own mind , I would choose rather to be a scholar than a prince without learning . I have a very good affectionate ...
... Homer . My master seems as well pleased with my performances as any boy's in the same class . I think , if I know my own mind , I would choose rather to be a scholar than a prince without learning . I have a very good affectionate ...
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... Homer and Plato , and thought himself wiser than all who had gone before him , tells us , that this Zoilus had a very long beard that hung down upon his breast , but no hair upon his head , which he always kept close shaved , re ...
... Homer and Plato , and thought himself wiser than all who had gone before him , tells us , that this Zoilus had a very long beard that hung down upon his breast , but no hair upon his head , which he always kept close shaved , re ...
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