Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed Principally for the Use of Young Persons at School and College |
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... Divine Comedy , - Æneas in the first , and Dante himself in the last , being supposed eyewitnesses therein , a minuteness of detail is dramatically proper , and constitutes that verisimili- tude , which is so charming ; yet that they ...
... Divine Comedy , - Æneas in the first , and Dante himself in the last , being supposed eyewitnesses therein , a minuteness of detail is dramatically proper , and constitutes that verisimili- tude , which is so charming ; yet that they ...
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... divine Plato ? An exception - like Plato himself . It was not fitted for , it never reached , the poets . It was indeed a high and noble effort of the pure imagination , and to ardent and exalted minds it might seem an explanation of ...
... divine Plato ? An exception - like Plato himself . It was not fitted for , it never reached , the poets . It was indeed a high and noble effort of the pure imagination , and to ardent and exalted minds it might seem an explanation of ...
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... divine , in earthly bed , Poet of Heroes , rests his sacred head . There has been as much doubt and controversy about the age of Homer , as about himself and his poems . According to the argument of Wood , * Haller , and Mitford , he ...
... divine , in earthly bed , Poet of Heroes , rests his sacred head . There has been as much doubt and controversy about the age of Homer , as about himself and his poems . According to the argument of Wood , * Haller , and Mitford , he ...
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... divine . In the Mythology also of the Iliad , purely pagan as it is , we discover one important truth uncon- sciously involved , which was almost entirely lost from view amidst the nearly equal skepticism and credulity of subsequent ...
... divine . In the Mythology also of the Iliad , purely pagan as it is , we discover one important truth uncon- sciously involved , which was almost entirely lost from view amidst the nearly equal skepticism and credulity of subsequent ...
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... divine Genius which ended these immortal rhapsodies with the lamentation of women over the lifeless Hector , had gone on and told the fall of Achilles himself , the mortal conflict round his body , the capture and the flames of Ilion ...
... divine Genius which ended these immortal rhapsodies with the lamentation of women over the lifeless Hector , had gone on and told the fall of Achilles himself , the mortal conflict round his body , the capture and the flames of Ilion ...
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Page 114 - All kind of arguments and question deep. All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, 125 Catching all passions in his craft of will...
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Page 11 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's...