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... Virgil has had ten who read him , and ten who remember him , for one that Homer could show . ... we shall find reason to think that the traditional and public idea of Homer's works , throughout the entire sphere of the Western ...
... Virgil has had ten who read him , and ten who remember him , for one that Homer could show . ... we shall find reason to think that the traditional and public idea of Homer's works , throughout the entire sphere of the Western ...
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It is not simply that Homer is here geographically accurate , and Homer has adopted the pyramidal structure , eye , and lays a firm and obvious road , so to Virgil does not . He subjoins to his de- Virgil the reverse . which satisfies ...
It is not simply that Homer is here geographically accurate , and Homer has adopted the pyramidal structure , eye , and lays a firm and obvious road , so to Virgil does not . He subjoins to his de- Virgil the reverse . which satisfies ...
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Upon the whole , though it is doubtless natural that Virgil should be compared with Homer , the mind is astonished at finding that he should so often even have gained a preference . We may account for his being chosen as Dante's guide ...
Upon the whole , though it is doubtless natural that Virgil should be compared with Homer , the mind is astonished at finding that he should so often even have gained a preference . We may account for his being chosen as Dante's guide ...
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Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 101 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1857 |
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