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... speaking , took the form of poetry . Poetry was before prose - not , of course , as a medium of ordinary communication , but as the language of composition . Their religion , their laws , their attempts at perpetuating the memory of ...
... speaking , took the form of poetry . Poetry was before prose - not , of course , as a medium of ordinary communication , but as the language of composition . Their religion , their laws , their attempts at perpetuating the memory of ...
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... no , not the child the mother beareth in her womb ; let none escape , but all of them together perish utterly from Troy , unburied and blotted out . ' " So speaking , he changed his brother's mind , Ancient and Modern Poetry . 19.
... no , not the child the mother beareth in her womb ; let none escape , but all of them together perish utterly from Troy , unburied and blotted out . ' " So speaking , he changed his brother's mind , Ancient and Modern Poetry . 19.
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William George T. Barter. " So speaking , he changed his brother's mind , so properly advising him . Menelaus thrust away the suppliant , whom Agamemnon straightway smote in the flank , and he fell back slain , and Agamem- non planted ...
William George T. Barter. " So speaking , he changed his brother's mind , so properly advising him . Menelaus thrust away the suppliant , whom Agamemnon straightway smote in the flank , and he fell back slain , and Agamem- non planted ...
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... speaking , it was but an imitation of the Greek , with less of original character in that depart- ment than almost any other literature . Contrasted therefore with modern poetry , the ancient will , in my mind , be found inferior ; for ...
... speaking , it was but an imitation of the Greek , with less of original character in that depart- ment than almost any other literature . Contrasted therefore with modern poetry , the ancient will , in my mind , be found inferior ; for ...
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... speaking , however , of modern poetry , there is one feature which especially distinguishes it from the literature of ancient Greece , and even of Rome , where all the mind of the known civilized world , without reference to country ...
... speaking , however , of modern poetry , there is one feature which especially distinguishes it from the literature of ancient Greece , and even of Rome , where all the mind of the known civilized world , without reference to country ...
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