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Work title:
"The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope"
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Date: 1715-1720
"As some way-faring Man, who wanders o'er / In Thought, a Length of Lands he trod before, / Sends forth his active Mind from Place to Place, / Joins Hill to Dale, and measures Space with Space: / So swift flew Juno to the blest Abodes, / If Thought of Man can match the Speed of Gods."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"It seem'd not enough to have taken in the whole Circle of Arts, and the whole Compass of Nature; all the inward Passions and Affections of Mankind to supply this Characters, and all the outward Forms and Images of Things for his Descriptions; but wanting yet an ampler Sphere to expatiate in, he ...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
