 | William Hall Chapman - 1912 - 178 стор.
...godlike images, and the costly relics "of the past." "The earnestness and "passion," says Charles Lamh, "which "he has put into every part of these po"ems...modern translations. His almost "Greek zeal for the honor of his heroes "is only paralleled by that fierce spirit of "Hebrew bigotry with which Milton,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874
...Charles Lamb has happily said that "he would have made a great epic poet, if he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly...as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written." It is remarkable, at the same time, that Lamb, in the short criticism which he has prefixed to the... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1875
...to embrace all forms. He would have made a great epic poet, if, indeed, he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly...modern translations. His almost Greek zeal for the honour of his heroes is only paralleled by that fierce spirit of Hebrew bigotry, with which Milton,... | |
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He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written. 
