The Quarterly Review, Volume 102William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1857 - English literature |
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Page 241
... Achilles of Homer beyond every other human example in the quality of grandeur , and make it touch the limits of the superhuman . There is nothing said or done by the Achilles of Euripides , nothing reported of him or assigned to him ...
... Achilles of Homer beyond every other human example in the quality of grandeur , and make it touch the limits of the superhuman . There is nothing said or done by the Achilles of Euripides , nothing reported of him or assigned to him ...
Page 242
... Achilles . And he is made the main subject of the nuptial song , properly so called ; yet nothing of him is really celebrated by the poet , * except his valour and his swiftness ; all the rest is simple amplification and embellishment ...
... Achilles . And he is made the main subject of the nuptial song , properly so called ; yet nothing of him is really celebrated by the poet , * except his valour and his swiftness ; all the rest is simple amplification and embellishment ...
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... Achilles is made to rest principally on the impeachment of Ulysses as a coward , and the reply of that chieftain ... Achilles are depressed to the same low level . ' Ajax and Achilles ! two mudwalls of fool , That differ only in degrees ...
... Achilles is made to rest principally on the impeachment of Ulysses as a coward , and the reply of that chieftain ... Achilles are depressed to the same low level . ' Ajax and Achilles ! two mudwalls of fool , That differ only in degrees ...
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History of the Irish PoorLaw in connexion with | 59 |
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