The New Monthly Magazine and Literary JournalHenry Colburn and Company, 1821 |
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... Greek Poetry . IT is impossible to trace the majestic stream of Greek poetry to its earliest fountains . That Greece had strains anterior to the Iliad and Odyssey , is evident from the nature of poetical compo- sition * , as well as ...
... Greek Poetry . IT is impossible to trace the majestic stream of Greek poetry to its earliest fountains . That Greece had strains anterior to the Iliad and Odyssey , is evident from the nature of poetical compo- sition * , as well as ...
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... Greek palace is never described by Homer without the presence of a bard , to heighten its festivity . I know not if the Odyssey can be said to shew the bard to have ever been a permanent inmate of the Prince's house ; though when we are ...
... Greek palace is never described by Homer without the presence of a bard , to heighten its festivity . I know not if the Odyssey can be said to shew the bard to have ever been a permanent inmate of the Prince's house ; though when we are ...
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... Greek mys- teries were founded , Homer is silent respecting them ; but at the commencement of the republican era in Greece they certainly received a new impulse and enlargement , from the rise of phi- losophy , and Orpheus was the great ...
... Greek mys- teries were founded , Homer is silent respecting them ; but at the commencement of the republican era in Greece they certainly received a new impulse and enlargement , from the rise of phi- losophy , and Orpheus was the great ...
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... Greek philo- sophers pretended to spiritualize their meaning , and to discover refined doctrines , profoundly hid under the veil of their fiction . But the experiment would not succeed . Homer may have some allegory , but his general ...
... Greek philo- sophers pretended to spiritualize their meaning , and to discover refined doctrines , profoundly hid under the veil of their fiction . But the experiment would not succeed . Homer may have some allegory , but his general ...
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... Greek genius , yet neither is their era exactly ascertained , nor the history of their author known , from his cradle to his grave . The ancients consulted oracles about his birthplace , but disbelieved them when they pretended to fix ...
... Greek genius , yet neither is their era exactly ascertained , nor the history of their author known , from his cradle to his grave . The ancients consulted oracles about his birthplace , but disbelieved them when they pretended to fix ...
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