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... slave ' and makes slavery , in various senses of the term , a theme in this part of his translation . Yet the Greek hardly seems to demand the modern word ' slave ' . Homer's word dμwg for a slave taken in war ( cf. Odyssey I. 398 ) or for ...
... slave ' and makes slavery , in various senses of the term , a theme in this part of his translation . Yet the Greek hardly seems to demand the modern word ' slave ' . Homer's word dμwg for a slave taken in war ( cf. Odyssey I. 398 ) or for ...
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... Slave ' ( I. 534 ) .3 Dryden has thus rung several changes on the word . From the quasi - literal sense as applying ... Slaves ' to help him POPE AND SLAVERY 29.
... Slave ' ( I. 534 ) .3 Dryden has thus rung several changes on the word . From the quasi - literal sense as applying ... Slaves ' to help him POPE AND SLAVERY 29.
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... slave ' give us pause . When James II anticipated that England would fall into slavery after 1688 , he of course meant that it would yield its rights and laws to the invasion of the Prince of Orange . In his famous speech in the last ...
... slave ' give us pause . When James II anticipated that England would fall into slavery after 1688 , he of course meant that it would yield its rights and laws to the invasion of the Prince of Orange . In his famous speech in the last ...
Contents
Pope and Slavery | 27 |
The Shadow of Friendship | 55 |
Popes Epic Idiom Revisited | 69 |
Copyright | |
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