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The Illiad: Preface.

Note to the Fifth Edition. Preface. In the spring of 1862 I was induced, at the request of some personal friends, to print, for private circulation only, a small volume of "…

The Illiad: Note to the Fifth Edition.

Preface. Note to the Fifth Edition. The favourable reception which has been given to the first Editions of this work, far exceeding my most sanguine hopes, affords a gratifying proof…

Concluding Note.

Footnotes Concluding Note. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of it, at an end, as that only was the subject of the poem,…

Footnotes

Concluding Note. Footnotes Vultures: Pope is more accurate than the poet he translates, for Homer writes "a prey to dogs and to all kinds of birds. But all kinds of birds are not…