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 under the feet of the Greeks marching silently to battle."

what superior taste has the translator heightened this simile, and exchanged the offending circumstance for a beauty. The fault is in the third line;, &c. which is a mean idea, compared with that which Mr Pope has substituted in its stead:

even the highest beauties of the