Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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Page 454
... Iliad of HOMER . The subject of the Iliad must unques- tionably be admitted to be , in the main , happily chosen . In the days of Homer , no object could be more splendid and dig . nified than the Trojan war . So great a confederacy of ...
... Iliad of HOMER . The subject of the Iliad must unques- tionably be admitted to be , in the main , happily chosen . In the days of Homer , no object could be more splendid and dig . nified than the Trojan war . So great a confederacy of ...
Page 457
... Iliad . You have there exact images of all the actions of war , and employments of peace ; and are entertained with the delightful view of the universe . Homer has all the beauties of every dialect and style scattered through his ...
... Iliad . You have there exact images of all the actions of war , and employments of peace ; and are entertained with the delightful view of the universe . Homer has all the beauties of every dialect and style scattered through his ...
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... Iliad . If we observe his descriptions , images , and similies , we shall find the invention still predominant . To what else can we ascribe that vast comprehension of images of every sort , where we see each circumstance of art , and ...
... Iliad . If we observe his descriptions , images , and similies , we shall find the invention still predominant . To what else can we ascribe that vast comprehension of images of every sort , where we see each circumstance of art , and ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
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