Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... Homers bookes should with that guard be serv'd ; That the most precious worke of all mens minds , In the most precious place , might be preserv❜d . The Fount of wit was Homer ; 4 Learnings Syre , And gave Antiquitie , her living fire.5 ...
... Homers bookes should with that guard be serv'd ; That the most precious worke of all mens minds , In the most precious place , might be preserv❜d . The Fount of wit was Homer ; 4 Learnings Syre , And gave Antiquitie , her living fire.5 ...
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... Homer ; but even to rehearse And number them : they did so much exceed ; Men thought him not a man ; but that his verse Some meere celestiall nature did adorne . And all may well conclude , it could not be , That for the place where any ...
... Homer ; but even to rehearse And number them : they did so much exceed ; Men thought him not a man ; but that his verse Some meere celestiall nature did adorne . And all may well conclude , it could not be , That for the place where any ...
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... Homer : and am perhaps , as naturally inclin'd to be disgusted at a fault as another Man : But , after all , to speak impartially , his faillings are such , as are only marks of humane frailty : they are little Mistakes , or rather Neg ...
... Homer : and am perhaps , as naturally inclin'd to be disgusted at a fault as another Man : But , after all , to speak impartially , his faillings are such , as are only marks of humane frailty : they are little Mistakes , or rather Neg ...
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