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Homer sang to his own people of the glorious deeds of their sires , to whom they were united by fond recollection and by near historic and local ties . This was at once a stimulus and a check ; it cheered his labour , and at the same ...
Homer sang to his own people of the glorious deeds of their sires , to whom they were united by fond recollection and by near historic and local ties . This was at once a stimulus and a check ; it cheered his labour , and at the same ...
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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 Virgil the reverse . Homer has adopted the pyramidal structure , which satisfies the eye , and lays a firm and obvious road , so to speak , to the skies .
It is not simply that Homer is here geographically accurate , and Virgil the reverse . Homer has adopted the pyramidal structure , which satisfies the eye , and lays a firm and obvious road , so to speak , to the skies .
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Henry Bradbury with full descriptions of their different | 57 |
Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
Character of the Rat and its cruel Cost to the Nation | 123 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 101 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1857 |
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