The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen3G. Bell, 1882 |
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... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His princes are as much ...
... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His princes are as much ...
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... Homer . He has not , indeed , so many thoughts that are low and vul- gar ; but at the same time has not so many thoughts that are sublime and noble . The truth of it is , Virgil seldom rises , into very astonishing sentiments , where he ...
... Homer . He has not , indeed , so many thoughts that are low and vul- gar ; but at the same time has not so many thoughts that are sublime and noble . The truth of it is , Virgil seldom rises , into very astonishing sentiments , where he ...
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... Homer is in his province when he is describing a battle or a multitude , a hero or a god . Virgil is never better pleased than when he is in Elysium , or copying out an entertaining picture . Homer's epithets generally mark out what is ...
... Homer is in his province when he is describing a battle or a multitude , a hero or a god . Virgil is never better pleased than when he is in Elysium , or copying out an entertaining picture . Homer's epithets generally mark out what is ...
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THE SPECTATOR | 1 |
Account of SapphoHer Hymn to Venus 225 Discretion and Cunning | 109 |
Letter on the Lovers Leap 229 Fragment of Sappho | 115 |
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