Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem: Containing Many Curious Reflexions, Very Useful and Necessary for the Right Understanding and Judging of the Excellencies of Homer and Virgil |
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Achilles Action Æneas Æneid againſt Agamemnon Anger Ariftotle becauſe Befides caft Capaneus Carthage Caufe Cauſe Chap Character Confequence confifts contrary Defign Dido Difcourfe difcovers Eclogues effential Eneas Eneid Epick Poem Epiſodes Epopéa Expreffion exprefs Fable faid fame fays fecond feems felf ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fing fingle firft firſt fome fomething fometimes forts fpeak ftill fuch fuppofe give Gods happen'd Hero Hiftory himſelf Homer Horace Iliad Inftance Inftructions juft King laft laftly leaft lefs likewife Manners Mezentius moft Moral moſt muft muſt Name Narration Nature neceffary obferv'd obferved oblig'd occafion Odyfeis oppofite paffage Paffions Patroclus Perfonages Perfons Philofopher pleaſe Poet Poetry prefent Prince propofe Propofition Reaſon Recital reft reprefent Satyr ſay ſhall Shepherds ſpeak Statius Subject Thebaid thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe Thoughts Tragedy Trojans Troy Truth Turnus Ulyffes underſtand uſe Valour Verfe Vertue Virgil Vlyffes wherein whofe