The similes of Homer's Iliad, tr. with intr. and notes by W.C. Green1877 |
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... mind , is a most clearsighted and sensible interpreter of Homer . He has a keen eye for hitting on the true point of likeness , and avoids refining on fancied resemblances in details merely ornamental . A glance at almost any simile ...
... mind , is a most clearsighted and sensible interpreter of Homer . He has a keen eye for hitting on the true point of likeness , and avoids refining on fancied resemblances in details merely ornamental . A glance at almost any simile ...
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... mind this sort of work , Homer specializes it as a cheek - piece for a horse , an ornament which a king might covet . Or take λ . 473 , where , though the comparison is double , the details must not be pressed too far ; indeed some ...
... mind this sort of work , Homer specializes it as a cheek - piece for a horse , an ornament which a king might covet . Or take λ . 473 , where , though the comparison is double , the details must not be pressed too far ; indeed some ...
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... mind of the reader a great thing , that he has not seen , by a smaller thing that he has seen , is in Homer's manner . For instance , in Iliad p . 362 there is just such a comparison of the boiling waters of Xanthus to those of a ...
... mind of the reader a great thing , that he has not seen , by a smaller thing that he has seen , is in Homer's manner . For instance , in Iliad p . 362 there is just such a comparison of the boiling waters of Xanthus to those of a ...
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... mind ) -whether we compare best with best , or all with all - come nearly up to these two . Of our own poets Spenser is the first who has made copious use of the simile . His Faery Queene is thickly set He is thoroughly classical in ...
... mind ) -whether we compare best with best , or all with all - come nearly up to these two . Of our own poets Spenser is the first who has made copious use of the simile . His Faery Queene is thickly set He is thoroughly classical in ...
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... mind . Any one can find numerous instances of this in Homer and Dante but few or none in Spenser . Several Spenserian parallels to Homeric passages have been quoted in the notes : I will add one here which is more Homeric than most ...
... mind . Any one can find numerous instances of this in Homer and Dante but few or none in Spenser . Several Spenserian parallels to Homeric passages have been quoted in the notes : I will add one here which is more Homeric than most ...
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