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Page 97
... language , and his theology or mythology . For an audience he had hearers whose thoughts and interests were not distracted by many problems , or wearied by too much reading , men of his own race and born to his own language , men with ...
... language , and his theology or mythology . For an audience he had hearers whose thoughts and interests were not distracted by many problems , or wearied by too much reading , men of his own race and born to his own language , men with ...
Page 98
... language furnishes the most inadequate material with which to do the work . Pope tried to elevate his own language to the Homeric heights , and thus he put Homer into some of the greatest absurdities ever produced in our lan- guage ...
... language furnishes the most inadequate material with which to do the work . Pope tried to elevate his own language to the Homeric heights , and thus he put Homer into some of the greatest absurdities ever produced in our lan- guage ...
Page 99
... language , or the language is due to the hexameter , as each seems born for the other . Homer can be comprehended and appreciated only in his own language . It is an easy language , has no long or involved sentences ; in fact two out of ...
... language , or the language is due to the hexameter , as each seems born for the other . Homer can be comprehended and appreciated only in his own language . It is an easy language , has no long or involved sentences ; in fact two out of ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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