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... HOMER ; I know not which I should most admire , says he , the Justness of the Original ( where I suppose he means , the Justness of the Original expressed in the ... HOMER from Greek , of which he does not Remarks upon Pope's Homer 123.
... HOMER ; I know not which I should most admire , says he , the Justness of the Original ( where I suppose he means , the Justness of the Original expressed in the ... HOMER from Greek , of which he does not Remarks upon Pope's Homer 123.
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... HOMER , with its loud and its various Notes , is dwindled in POPE's Lips to a Jew's- Trump . The Pegasus of this little Gentleman , is not the Steed that HOMER rode ; but a blind , stumbling Kentish Post - Horse , which neither walks ...
... HOMER , with its loud and its various Notes , is dwindled in POPE's Lips to a Jew's- Trump . The Pegasus of this little Gentleman , is not the Steed that HOMER rode ; but a blind , stumbling Kentish Post - Horse , which neither walks ...
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... Homer partly because Homer had written " in a superior Language " ( cf. Preface to the Iliad , in Ault , Prose Works of Pope [ Oxford , 1936 ] , p . 244 ) , and he confessed him- self " utterly incapable of doing Justice to Homer ...
... Homer partly because Homer had written " in a superior Language " ( cf. Preface to the Iliad , in Ault , Prose Works of Pope [ Oxford , 1936 ] , p . 244 ) , and he confessed him- self " utterly incapable of doing Justice to Homer ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
To the Spectator on Poetical Justice 1712 | 18 |
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