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...The scene lies in the Grecian camp, then changes to Chrysa, and lastly to Olympus. THE ILIAD. BOOK I. ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reigu The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose...

...the construction of the verse, that verse is no longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of...speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The first b'nes of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Achilles'...

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