The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 6James Crissy, 1832 - Spectator |
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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 suita- 24 No. 273 . > THE SPECTATOR .
... 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 suita- 24 No. 273 . > THE SPECTATOR .
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... Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his cha- racters . He has introduced among his Grecian princes a person who had lived thrice the age of man , and conversed with Theseus , Hercules ...
... Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his cha- racters . He has introduced among his Grecian princes a person who had lived thrice the age of man , and conversed with Theseus , Hercules ...
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... Homer , or indeed in the whole circle of nature . Milton was so sensible of this defect in the subject of his poem , and of the few characters it would afford him , that he has brought into it two . actors of a shadowy and fictitious ...
... Homer , or indeed in the whole circle of nature . Milton was so sensible of this defect in the subject of his poem , and of the few characters it would afford him , that he has brought into it two . actors of a shadowy and fictitious ...
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... Homer's Odyssey is very much admired by Aristotle , as perplexing that fable with very agreeable plots and intricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the subtlety of his behaviour , but by the various concealments ...
... Homer's Odyssey is very much admired by Aristotle , as perplexing that fable with very agreeable plots and intricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the subtlety of his behaviour , but by the various concealments ...
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... Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ascribed to Uriel , Gabriel , Michael , or Raphael , which is not in a particular manner suitable to their respective characters . There is another circumstance in the principal actors of ...
... Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ascribed to Uriel , Gabriel , Michael , or Raphael , which is not in a particular manner suitable to their respective characters . There is another circumstance in the principal actors of ...
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