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...The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language, making it the fi...

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...The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, and concerns the events that befall the Gr...

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...istorical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...e private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. E... ...ction of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, an... ...e most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Fo... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ..., quoted in this novel, is included with the translator’s permission. The poems appeared in Sappho, Lyrics in the Original Greek, with translations ... ...those hasty, affectionate scribbles. Would he ever again dictate his bawdy poems, lampoon dictators and brag about war? Had pen and desk become his e... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ... grey eyes in his young blond face. Courtiers tell me he has completed an epic poem about my Battle of the Anghieri... A couple of weeks ago, Galea...

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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ...Philospho e Medico). So Scholler-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bu... ..., Astronomy, Musike, and all the Mathematikes yet holde their name of the Greekes: and the Greekes drew their baptizing water from the conduit-pipes... ...o, Aristotle and many; or of purpose, as all since havemade most know the Greeke, and almost the Latinr, even translated their whole treatises? Why ... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ...e content with that which is present, and never displeased with it selfe. Epicurus doth dispense with his age touching the foresight and care of wha... ...s what he had stolne from others, his paper would remaine blanke. Whereas Epicurus cleane contrarie to him in three hundred volumes he left behind h... ...istotles principles shall he no more axiomes unto him, than the Stoikes or Epicurians. Let this diversitie of judgements he proposed unto him, if he ...

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...om the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I h... ...ranslated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek int... ... chance other than to plan a siege on life, or to console himself with the epic of the return to nothingness, after having experienced the siege. ... ...ce, with so much conviction. As far as I know, no expert in mythology, Greek or World literature can find someone else who has turned something ... ...ously so he can transform his life. The story of the Odyssey is not an epic poem about the valor of arms and military battle; it is the story of... ...he has found the secret to immortality. 50 There was another king in ancient times that shared this same burning desire and that travelled tir... ...w much can the love we receive help us, if we do not free ourselves of the ancient hatred we carry within ourselves? This story reminds me of the ... ...e to try to understand what the Sirens are singing, as many have done from ancient times until today. Only the laws of biological growth manage to ... ...e must ask another one. Why did Homer write the Odyssey? The Iliad is an epic poem that celebrates the heroism of the Achaeans, strong protectors,...

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...e of MVJ: 3.1. Neutrosophy: <philosophy> (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Flore... ...y A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] means knowledge of neutral thought. B) Defini... ...and synthesizing the Source of Cognition (Vedas, IV th century B.C.), the Epic (with many stories), and the Upanishads (principles of Hindu philosoph... ... different. 44 His irony against politicians: "the politicians of the ancient world were always talking about morals and virtue, ours speak on n... ...ferentiations (Lossky, "World as an organic whole"). As in Ramayana epic, the neutrosophy adopts a skeptic attitude simultaneously rejecting a... ...acred Hindu text "Bhagavad-Gita", found in the "Mah ābhārata", one of the ancient Sanskrit epics, Lord Krishna lays the complete knowledge of life to... ..."Bhagavad-Gita", found in the "Mah ābhārata", one of the ancient Sanskrit epics, Lord Krishna lays the complete knowledge of life to his pupil Arjun... ..., the bad and idealization, as spirit necessity, are exaggerations. (...) Greeks' <measure> was excessive as the hybrid which broke it. Their serenit... ...stem (LP) has the values: ‘true’, ‘false’, and ‘both true and false’. The ancient Indian metaphysics considered four possible values of a statement: ...

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...d permission of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. N.K. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version, Penguin Classics, revised edition, H... ...lical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CON... ...53 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend through my studies of Greek. Might Jung, with his statements about the hopelessness of ever achie... ...e scanty, understanding of the nature of human life. Translations from the Greek and Hebrew are my own, except in a few instances specifically noted i... ...under King Akhenaton. 11 It was later blended with religious elements from ancient Palestine of about the same era, as well as with organized Arab rel... ...Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1948; A.H. Gardiner... ...irect progenitor of modern day Judaism. 13. For the overall development of ancient Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress P... ...note that the same journey was written up in the ancient Sumerian poem The Epic of Gil- gamesh, written before 2000 BC, in which it is a journey under... ...y, which, however, he lost on MYSTICISM 161 his return journey.] 122 This epic served as a religious text for the Sumerians and Babylonians for some ...

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...ary historian outlines the history of paradox on periods, in a few countries (ancient India, ancient China and Japan) and analyses the paradox in sci... ...marandache himself finds out - in his play Antique Tragedy - paradoxes in the Greek philosophy, without fear or other resentments. The debate among t... ...ISM, theorized and then brilliantly applied to every literary genres- lyrical, epic and dramatic. We will not insist here on the two real phenomena, ... ...highest or the oddest fields of the existence” and he “would believe like the ancient Midas that anything could enter the area of the paradox” 4) . T... ...le dramatic jewel is Antique Tragedy, in what the three sacred monsters of the Greek theatre, Eschyl, Eurypide and Sofocle are brought in the same pe... ...deation and language. The author proves an excellent knowledge of the antique Greek theatre and reality and of the socratian heuristic method and, m... ...amare Ghita”etc. In other place an interjectional dialogue reminding of a pre-ancient times of the human language, is presented as an “onomatopoeic ... ...le could as well be named “Romanian/Oltenian verses”. In this way, the lyrico-epic character of the volume is, paradoxistly talking, a man without c... ...further on, because it represents the main “opposition” against the prosaism, epicallism, even textualism. From this point of view, Smarandache’s ob...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called f...

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.........................................462 5 The Kalevala THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1... ...om a desire to lay before the English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the natio... ...al beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of the... ...il ship board, and, withal, a brave soldier on land. The Finns are a very ancient people. It is claimed, too, that they began earlier than any other... ...began earlier than any other European nation to collect and preserve their ancient folk lore. Tacitus, writing in the very beginning of the second ce... ...rsons. The Sun, Moon, Stars, the Earth, the Air, and the Sea, were to the ancient Finns, living, self conscious beings. Gradually the existence of in... ... evil on the mountains, and is therefore termed, “The Thunderer,” like the Greek Zeus, and his abode is called, “The Thunder Home.” Ukko is often repr... ...n our youth learned to call beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer [Achilles?]; but if the poet may tak... ... “darksome Laplanders”, just as the Iliad relates the contests between the Greeks and the Trojans. Castren is of the opinion that the enmity be tween...

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Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

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............................................................181 THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS ..................................................................... ...ast in the cloud-coloured robes of the balm-breathing Orient Lo! the grand Epic advances, unfolding the humanest truth. THE POETRY OF COLERIDGE A broo... ...reat Poseidon’s sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes off the waves, the King of Crete Held lofty commune... ..., and, God bless him! thro’ him I’ve learnt to love a whole nation.”’ The ancient man paused, winking dim. XXIV A curious look, half woeful, was seen... ...ve upon a mortal lease. I cannot take the woman at her worth! Where is the ancient wealth wherewith I clothed Our human nakedness, and could endow Wit... ...n’s topmost tower, Ilion’s fierce prophetic flower Cried the coming of the Greek! Black in Hades sits the hour. IV Eyeing phantoms of the Past, Folded... ...n’s topmost tower, Ilion’s fierce prophetic flower Cried the coming of the Greek! Black in Hades sits the hour. X Still upon her sunless soul Gleams t... ... the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. THE STAR ... ...o their thief, Charged with an Axe nigh on the occiput. 182 THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS That Garden of sedate Philosophy Once flourished, fenced from pass...

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...The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world through mythological tales, starting with a cosmogony and finishing with the deification of Julius Caesar. P...

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Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

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...Edition. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ................................................

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...ar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pennsy... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ............................................................. ...................................................... 269 EXPLANATION OF AN ANCIENT WOODCUT, REPRESENTING HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION.... 269 SONNETS.... ...................................................... 450 THE BEQUEST OF THE ANCIENT PERSIAN FAITH. ....................................................... ...ween the East and West To revolve, be my behest! 1833.* EXPLANATION OF AN ANCIENT WOODCUT, REP- RESENTING HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION. [I feel consi... ...eager—the homely acorn alone must content us; Yet he himself his more-than-epic crusade is conducting High on Golgotha’s summit, that foreign gods he ... ...then, my senses stray, Wonder no longer. 1814. SONG AND STRUCTURE. LET the Greek his plastic clay Mould in human fashion, While his own creation may W... ...mine eye the farewell say, 51 Let no cares now hover o’er us 135 Let the Greek his plastic clay 423 Light and silv’ry cloudlets hover 100 Link’d w...

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...reate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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... out a Tory at Last,— yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of pla... ... Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I ‘ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent... ... is, for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turn... ... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ...l too (it was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumi... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...perience, Perhaps they ‘ll have some more about a year hence. My poem ‘s epic, and is meant to be Divided in twelve books; each book containin... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ...sorrow through her heart re sent; And he begun a long low island song Of ancient days, ere tyranny grew strong. Anon her thin wan fingers beat t...

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...Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctuation and spelling of the print version have been retained....

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... is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation ... ... poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays,—this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet un- encumbered with these things, did for itse... ...uld do. I consider Hero- worship to be the grand modifying element in that ancient system of thought. What I called the perplexed jungle of Pa- ganism... ...ther- wise as if bottomless and shoreless. So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the... ...- ity, rusticity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek Paganism, distinguishes this Scandinavian Sys- tem. It is Thought; th... ...l good Thought in all times. Not graceful lightness, half-sport, as in the Greek Paganism; a certain homely truthfulness and rustic strength, a great ... ...h free flowing outlines; grand in its sincerity, in its simplicity; in its epic melody, and repose of reconcilement. There is the seeing eye, the mild... ...d the others, which is worth remembering. He calls them a kind of National Epic. Marlborough, you recol- lect, said, he knew no English History but wh... ... itself off, into a kind of rhythmic coher- ence; it is, as Schlegel says, epic;—as indeed all delineation by a great thinker will be. There are right...

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...ENTS OF THE LAY OF BRYNHILD ....................................................................................................... 161 THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LAY OF GUDRUN ................................................................................................ 166 THE SONG OF ATLI ........................................................................................

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........................................................... 161 THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LA Y OF GUDRUN ....................................................... ...ard and westward over Europe, to shake empires and found kingdoms, to meet Greek and Roman in conflict, and levy tribute every- where, had kept up the... ...se something may have been gained from contact with other peoples—from the Greeks during the long years in which the northern races pressed upon their... ...he same confusion of different stages of myth-making is to be found in the Greek religion, and indeed in those of all peoples; similar conditions of m... ... volume are part of the wonderful frag- ments which are all that remain of ancient Scandinavian po- etry. Every piece which survives has been garnered... ... in set form, after a regular fashion that unconsciously complied with all epical requirements but that of verse—simple plot, events in order of time,... ...e old story of adventure or achievement. In very truth the saga is a prose epic, and marked by every quality an epic should possess. Growing up while ... ... it should have inspired William Morris in producing the one great English epic of the century; (13) and Richard W agner in the mightiest among his mu... ...he Songs of Edda; in chap. xxxii. the Sagaman has rendered into prose the “Ancient Lay of Gudrun”, except for the begin- ning, which gives again anoth...

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...OND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824......................................................................................................................... 22 THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. .......................................................

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...’—kissed’— ’ dressed’ (5 53). Shelley may have first seen the word in “The Ancient Mariner”; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seem... ... their thin shadows down the rugged slope, And nought but gnarled roots of ancient pines* _530 Branchless and blasted, clenched... ...ated thresholds. I have conversed with living men of genius. The poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, and mod- ern Italy, and our own country, has been ... ...ume. 231 Shelley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their na... ...: Dante indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of th... ...race remains among his papers. The third was the “Prometheus Unbound”. The Greek tragedians were now his most familiar companions in his wanderings, a... ...nsider Hell and the Devil as supernatural machinery. The whole scene of my epic is in ‘this world which is’—so Peter informed us before his conversion... ...nd all these meet at levees;— Dinners convivial and political;— Suppers of epic poets;—teas, Where small talk dies in agonies;— ... ... which he treats the pigs proves him to have been a sus Boeotiae; possibly Epicuri de grege porcus; for, as the poet observes, ‘A fellow feeling makes...

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... of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...mprovisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed o... ... aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew ne... ...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ...o have written the Batrachomyomachia, or Battle of the Frogs and Mice, the Epicichlidia, and some other minor works.] Besides the satisfaction of driv... ...erriment. These loose songs were not collected together, in the form of an epic poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” ... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ... to be formed, we should be able to make a guess at the time when the old epic poems were first committed to writing. Now the period which may with t...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ...eans could have been discovered by the learned for putting a stop to him. [Greek Text: Aperantologia] was his forte; upon this he piqued himself, and ... ..., my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text: Cap Omega, Cap Phi] SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE THE FIRST THE... ...at well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch’tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress... ...wmarket language, if ranked against Chrysippus, or Plato, or Aristotle, or Epicurus, he would be found ‘nowhere.’ He is reduced, therefore, at one blo... ...e magician’s rod, she had called up spawn in- numerable of authors, lyric, epic, dramatic, pastoral, each after his kind. But by whom had France moved... ...ive and I bequeath, old Euclio said’—and the ridiculous story of the dying epicure insisting upon having his luxurious dish brought back to his death-...

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...of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tra dition, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ... comparative inferiority of the Odyssey to the Iliad; and, among a mass of ancient authors, whose very names it would be tedious to detail, no suspici... ...erriment. These loose songs were not collected together, in the form of an epic poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” ... ... as must be indispensably sup posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...lly put it; and it has been considered incumbent on those who defended the ancient aggregate character of the Iliad and Odyssey, to maintain that they... ...p wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...nal. “At what period,” continues Grote, “these poems, or indeed any other Greek poems, first began to be written, must be matter of conjecture, thoug... ...n to be formed, we should be able to make a guess at the time when the old epic poems were first committed to writing. Now the period which may with t... ...tive hexameter, and poetical compositions having been transferred from the epical past to the affairs of present and real life. Such a change was impo...

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...age, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more lasting than brass—a [Greek: chtaema es aei]—a murder such in quality as any murder that he would... ... This would be to defeat his whole purpose in murdering her at all. T o an epicure in murder such as Williams, it would be taking away the very sting ... ...er to the effort, found a vast auxiliary advantage in a peerage and a very ancient descent. On these double wings he soared into a region of public in... ...ed as if built in brick; whereas, had it been so happy as to be written in Greek, then it would have been a palace built in Parian marble. Indeed! tha... ...on, though quite content with it in English, still could have wished it in Greek. That’s No. 2. Bentley, though admiring the blind old poet in the hig... ...tailor and co. As to ‘Cato,’ Schlosser, as usual, wanders in the shadow of ancient night. The English ‘people,’ it seems, so ‘extravagantly applauded’... ...ed reader knows well what is coming. Fox is ‘formed after the model of the ancients’—Fox is ‘simple’—Fox is ‘natu- ral’—Fox is ‘chaste’—Fox is ‘forcib... ...niture for his house; by consulting her on his own plans of life.’ Q. ‘Did Epicurus maintain any doctrines such as are here ascribed to him?’—A. ‘Perh... ...ty of transcendent poets; meaning narrative poets, or, even more narrowly, epic poets. The duty thrown upon the second cou- plet is to characterize th...