...touching, the most human, of all the delineations of masculine character in the Iliad. In him alone has Homer presented to us that most commanding and most moving combination, of a woman's gentleness and deep affection with warlike and heroic strength. If the hand of Hector was far...

...with his habits and avocations as a popular minstrel, did occasionally lead him to make sesthetical blunders, from which many a small poet in ages of...domestic virtues and family feelings only in the case of the Trojans, it is no less true that it is the part of a great poet, as of a groat general, both...