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All the Homeric characters , down to Thersites , are drawn each in its way with a master's hand ; Æneas is no exception ... fail in the delineation of his hero , or protagonist , ' from simple want of power to pourtray human character .
All the Homeric characters , down to Thersites , are drawn each in its way with a master's hand ; Æneas is no exception ... fail in the delineation of his hero , or protagonist , ' from simple want of power to pourtray human character .
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When in the Italian romance the character of Orlando again became the basis of new epic poems , we again find in the protagonist great weakness indeed , as compared with Achilles and Ulysses ; but strength and success as compared with ...
When in the Italian romance the character of Orlando again became the basis of new epic poems , we again find in the protagonist great weakness indeed , as compared with Achilles and Ulysses ; but strength and success as compared with ...
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But Agamemnon alone among the Greek heroes had in his character a strong element of what we call shabbiness ; and what is more , he uses this plea only after making reparation , and not , as Æneas does , in lieu of any .
But Agamemnon alone among the Greek heroes had in his character a strong element of what we call shabbiness ; and what is more , he uses this plea only after making reparation , and not , as Æneas does , in lieu of any .
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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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