...and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...is surely to be desired if it. be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils...

...and what was expedient to Virgil, was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils...

...and what was expedient to Virgil, was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils...

...and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...character; but to have added can be no great crime, if about Homer, pretended not to understand him, and asked, "Books! books! what books ?" — " My Homer,"...

...and what was expedient to Virgil, was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...alas! it was not to be found. Homer, doubtless, owes toi his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to ' his character ; but to have added...

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...suppose many readers of the English 'Iliad,' when they have heen tonched with some unexpected heanty he found. Homer douhtless owes to his trauslator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitahle to his character;...

...what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English ' Iliad ,' your Paeans sing. Be this the song, slow-moving toward...bred (Unworthy of himself and of the dead.) The n Ovidion graces not exactly suitable to hi« character; but to have added can be no gtrcat crime, if...

...what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English " Iliad," when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...Elegance is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at t' expense of dignity. A hero would wish to loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils...

...suppose many readers of the English ' Iliad,' when they have heen touched with some unexpected heauty of the lighter kind, have tried to enjoy it in the original, where, alas ! it was not to he found. Homer douhtless owes to his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitahle to his character;...