The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 3John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Literature, Modern |
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... poem probably received its epithet from its inferiority in extent or merit to the more celebrated Iliad of Homer . The Iliad and Odyssey , it is observed by Aristotle , each afford the subject of one , or at most two tragedies , while ...
... poem probably received its epithet from its inferiority in extent or merit to the more celebrated Iliad of Homer . The Iliad and Odyssey , it is observed by Aristotle , each afford the subject of one , or at most two tragedies , while ...
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... poem on the destruction of Troy , and we may suppose was held in estimation , if , as is said , a statue was erected to him on Mount Helicon . Eugammon composed a Telegoniad . An heroic poem , founded on the story of Edipus , is quoted ...
... poem on the destruction of Troy , and we may suppose was held in estimation , if , as is said , a statue was erected to him on Mount Helicon . Eugammon composed a Telegoniad . An heroic poem , founded on the story of Edipus , is quoted ...
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... poem has strongly the appearance of short fragments , fortuitously put together . PHOCYLIDES , the Milesian , was contemporary with the former writer . We have under his name an admonitory poem of two hun- dred and seventeen verses ...
... poem has strongly the appearance of short fragments , fortuitously put together . PHOCYLIDES , the Milesian , was contemporary with the former writer . We have under his name an admonitory poem of two hun- dred and seventeen verses ...
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Venezianu On the imitative Principle as an Instrument | 4 |
Education Account of the Gulph and Territory of Cataro | 10 |
concluded Synonymic Elucidations continued Remark | 34 |
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