The Gods of Homer and Virgil: Or, Mythology for ChildrenJoseph Thomas, 1837 - 210 pages |
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... regret , that talents so exalted , should not have been employed in a higher and nobler cause ; and that men so calculated to feel and to express all the sublimer passions of human nature , should have lived and died in pagan 6 MYTHOLOGY .
... regret , that talents so exalted , should not have been employed in a higher and nobler cause ; and that men so calculated to feel and to express all the sublimer passions of human nature , should have lived and died in pagan 6 MYTHOLOGY .
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Or, Mythology for Children. human nature , should have lived and died in pagan darkness , before the " glad tidings of the gospel brought life and im- mortality to light . " The perfect freedom which we enjoy under the Christian ...
Or, Mythology for Children. human nature , should have lived and died in pagan darkness , before the " glad tidings of the gospel brought life and im- mortality to light . " The perfect freedom which we enjoy under the Christian ...
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... lived 968 , B. C. " In his two cele- brated poems , the Iliad and the Odyssey , Homer has displayed the most consummate knowledge of human nature , and ren- dered himself immortal by the sublimity , the fire , sweetness , and elegance ...
... lived 968 , B. C. " In his two cele- brated poems , the Iliad and the Odyssey , Homer has displayed the most consummate knowledge of human nature , and ren- dered himself immortal by the sublimity , the fire , sweetness , and elegance ...
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... lived , and which is alluded to in the well known lines- " Seven Grecian towns contend for Homer dead , Through which the living Homer begged his bread . ” Alexander was so much attached to the writings of Homer , that he generally ...
... lived , and which is alluded to in the well known lines- " Seven Grecian towns contend for Homer dead , Through which the living Homer begged his bread . ” Alexander was so much attached to the writings of Homer , that he generally ...
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... lived about 100 years after him . Though he cannot be ranked with his great predecessor in the art , yet his writings possess much beauty . He wrote a poem on agriculture , called The Works and the Days ; " the " Theogony , " or account ...
... lived about 100 years after him . Though he cannot be ranked with his great predecessor in the art , yet his writings possess much beauty . He wrote a poem on agriculture , called The Works and the Days ; " the " Theogony , " or account ...
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