"[T]his last astonishes the Reader, and he is so intent upon it, that he has not attention to consider the absurdity in the manner of Ulysses's landing: In this moment when [Homer] perceives the mind of the Reader as it were intoxicated with these beauties, he steals Ulysses on shore, and dismisses the Ph&aelig;acians; all this takes up but eight verses."
The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek
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<u>The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek</u>, 5 vols. (London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725-26).