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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... - guage which gave them heroic mastery in the con- test , without any labor of their own . We may even now hear them challenging posterity in charm- 4 * ed accents , and daunting our rivalry with armour of CONCLUSION . 33.
... - guage which gave them heroic mastery in the con- test , without any labor of their own . We may even now hear them challenging posterity in charm- 4 * ed accents , and daunting our rivalry with armour of CONCLUSION . 33.
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... heroic age , all having one common 66 " la manière des * Hedelin denied that any such person as Homer ever existed , and maintained that the Iliad was made up ex tragoediis et variis canticis de trivio , mendicorum et circulatorum ...
... heroic age , all having one common 66 " la manière des * Hedelin denied that any such person as Homer ever existed , and maintained that the Iliad was made up ex tragoediis et variis canticis de trivio , mendicorum et circulatorum ...
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... heroic poetry , now or anciently exist- ing under various names , must have been compos- ed . We are told of Arctinus the Milesian , author of the Ethiopis ; of Lesches the Lesbian , author of the Little Iliad ; of Stasinus the Cyprian ...
... heroic poetry , now or anciently exist- ing under various names , must have been compos- ed . We are told of Arctinus the Milesian , author of the Ethiopis ; of Lesches the Lesbian , author of the Little Iliad ; of Stasinus the Cyprian ...
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... heroic verses of the Homeric age must have seemed very unfit vehicles of , or accompaniments to , scenic effect of any kind . In this interval , therefore , I place a third and last race of Rhapsodists , now no longer the fellow poets ...
... heroic verses of the Homeric age must have seemed very unfit vehicles of , or accompaniments to , scenic effect of any kind . In this interval , therefore , I place a third and last race of Rhapsodists , now no longer the fellow poets ...
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... and the Prince of all heroic Poets , - - - the Father the boast and the glory of his own Greece , and the love and the admiration of all mankind . INTRODUCTION ΤΟ THE ILIAD . Ir may perhaps be confidently 68 LIFE OF HOMER .
... and the Prince of all heroic Poets , - - - the Father the boast and the glory of his own Greece , and the love and the admiration of all mankind . INTRODUCTION ΤΟ THE ILIAD . Ir may perhaps be confidently 68 LIFE OF HOMER .
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