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P.3! 5 (m)< r_T 32>:-jj JTJ.0MER seems, as in a Concert of Music, ' to have sung all the several Part's which ' can possibly be introduced into Poetry ; and ' excelled. He is more noble and lofy in his ' than Htfoits, and in other respects he has ' out-done the rest. The Subjcfi he treats of ' is the TrGjan Story, into which Fortune had ' collected, and as it were set forth all the ' Virtues both of the Greeks, and barbarous ' Nations : There he has represented Wars of ' all kinds ; sometimes of Men against Men, ' sometimes against Horses ; sometimes against ' Walls and Rivers, and sometimes against Gods ' and Goddesses. He has likewise represented ' and Songs, and Loves and Feasts ; has taught ' and has punted the different Figures and ' has done in a wonderful and almost super' natural Manner ; and those who are not in Love c with Rh
 * to have out-stript all his contemporary Poets
 * in that very thing in which each of them
 * Language than Orpheus ; his Verse is sweeter
 * Peace in all it's Effects ; has described Dances
 * what belongs to Agriculture, and has mark' ed the Seasons which are fit for the seve' ral rural Toils : He has lung of Navigation,
 * and of the Art of working Metals by Fire ;
 * Manners of Men. All this I think Homer