The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1970 - 490 pages |
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Page 98
... former . Of the two lives of Homer , which are extant , it is more probable that the Ionic was written by Herodotus than that the Attic was by Plutarch . Mycale is a mountain not in Boeotia , as Mr. W. affirms , but in Ionia near the ...
... former . Of the two lives of Homer , which are extant , it is more probable that the Ionic was written by Herodotus than that the Attic was by Plutarch . Mycale is a mountain not in Boeotia , as Mr. W. affirms , but in Ionia near the ...
Page 367
... former of these facts the evidence , as it is given in the following curious paper , preserved in Lord Somers's collection , is direct and strong : but for the latter , nothing is adduced but hearsay testimony of so vague and light a ...
... former of these facts the evidence , as it is given in the following curious paper , preserved in Lord Somers's collection , is direct and strong : but for the latter , nothing is adduced but hearsay testimony of so vague and light a ...
Page 397
... former is con- ceived and executed on a very small scale of mind , and the latter , on one that is magnificently extensive : that in the former there is a pervading lit- tleness ; in the latter nothing but greatness : that in the former ...
... former is con- ceived and executed on a very small scale of mind , and the latter , on one that is magnificently extensive : that in the former there is a pervading lit- tleness ; in the latter nothing but greatness : that in the former ...
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