Essays on Various Subjects, 2Johnson, 1809 |
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... Greece and Rome . Among the princes of Europe more great characters were found in the space of two hundred years , than in the thousand years that preceded . Resist- ance to the patrons of that mental darkness , from which Europe had ...
... Greece and Rome . Among the princes of Europe more great characters were found in the space of two hundred years , than in the thousand years that preceded . Resist- ance to the patrons of that mental darkness , from which Europe had ...
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George Walker. to be found . Hence the prejudice , that the poets of Greece and Rome , but particularly of Greece , are superior in every excellence to those of later days . I hesitate not to deny the fact ; but if it were as by the ...
George Walker. to be found . Hence the prejudice , that the poets of Greece and Rome , but particularly of Greece , are superior in every excellence to those of later days . I hesitate not to deny the fact ; but if it were as by the ...
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... Greece and Rome . The gods , as gods of antiquity , might fall into contempt and oblivion , but the celestial machinery of the ancients must be preserved at any rate ; and , as no G 2 be OF THE ANCIENT EPIC POFM . 85.
... Greece and Rome . The gods , as gods of antiquity , might fall into contempt and oblivion , but the celestial machinery of the ancients must be preserved at any rate ; and , as no G 2 be OF THE ANCIENT EPIC POFM . 85.
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... Greece and Rome , by the ex- hibition of their celestial machinery , de- signed real personages such as the popular faith received them , or merely an allegori- cal representation of certain dignified vir- tues . If , under this ...
... Greece and Rome , by the ex- hibition of their celestial machinery , de- signed real personages such as the popular faith received them , or merely an allegori- cal representation of certain dignified vir- tues . If , under this ...
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... the time of Homer , had no formidable common enemy , as in a later pe- riod , when the Persian power threatened the G 4 general It would not be difficult to Po- general ruin of Greece ; and , therefore , what OF THE ANCIENT EPIC POEM . 87.
... the time of Homer , had no formidable common enemy , as in a later pe- riod , when the Persian power threatened the G 4 general It would not be difficult to Po- general ruin of Greece ; and , therefore , what OF THE ANCIENT EPIC POEM . 87.
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