New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... true that in pretensions to * Nec dubitari debet quin fuerint ante Homerum poeta . - CICERO , Brut . I. cap . 18 . † Only one of his poets ( Phemius ) speaks , in the whole course of the Odyssey , but once , and that once in order to ...
... true that in pretensions to * Nec dubitari debet quin fuerint ante Homerum poeta . - CICERO , Brut . I. cap . 18 . † Only one of his poets ( Phemius ) speaks , in the whole course of the Odyssey , but once , and that once in order to ...
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... true daughter of Homeric poetry , whilst , by others , she was flattered as too wise and goodly a personage to have sprung from so old , so ig- norant , and so irreligious a parent . Upon the whole , however , the philosophers kept on ...
... true daughter of Homeric poetry , whilst , by others , she was flattered as too wise and goodly a personage to have sprung from so old , so ig- norant , and so irreligious a parent . Upon the whole , however , the philosophers kept on ...
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... true ; but none that were worthy ' Αντίβιον μαχέσασθαι ἐν αινῇ δηϊοτῆτι , till our own countryman , Payne Knight * , vindicated the Iliad and Odyssey from the imputation of having been patched into beauty and unity by a crowd of ...
... true ; but none that were worthy ' Αντίβιον μαχέσασθαι ἐν αινῇ δηϊοτῆτι , till our own countryman , Payne Knight * , vindicated the Iliad and Odyssey from the imputation of having been patched into beauty and unity by a crowd of ...
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... a slight insight into both to be struck by the high superiority of the Greek imitations of life , in point of distinctness and an air Xenoph . Symp . iii . 5 . of reality . It is true , that chivalry gave 10 Lectures on Poetry .
... a slight insight into both to be struck by the high superiority of the Greek imitations of life , in point of distinctness and an air Xenoph . Symp . iii . 5 . of reality . It is true , that chivalry gave 10 Lectures on Poetry .
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of reality . It is true , that chivalry gave human character some noble peculiarities unknown to the antique time . Though the Hellenic chief might have as much cultivated brain under his helmet as the Crusader , and though he appears ...
of reality . It is true , that chivalry gave human character some noble peculiarities unknown to the antique time . Though the Hellenic chief might have as much cultivated brain under his helmet as the Crusader , and though he appears ...
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