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" essentially personal or subjective. ... In the Works not only is the author never out of sight, but it is the author, at least as muchas the subject, which imparts interest to the whole. Instead of an inspired being transported beyond self into the regions... "
The epics of Hesiod, with an Engl. comm. by F.A. Paley - Page vi
by Hesiodus - 1861
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A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Volume 2

William Mure - Classical philology - 1850 - 530 pages
...subject, which imparts interest to the whole. Instead of an inspired being, transported beyond self iuto the regions of heroism and glory, a gifted rustic,...enjoined as the best passport to notice and popularity. His sketch, consequently, of ^olo-Bceotic life, of its rural economy, habits, and superstitions, is...
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A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Volume 2

William Mure - Classical philology - 1850 - 524 pages
...personal, or " subjective." This is peculiarly the case with his two chief productions ; and the more it is so, the more Hesiodic they are. In the Works, not...enjoined as the best passport to notice and popularity. His sketch, consequently, of ^Eolo-Bceotic life, of its rural economy, habits, and superstitions, is...
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The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 1

Homer - 1866 - 516 pages
...Mure has observed, in a passage quoted by Mr. Paley (37), "essentially personal or subjective. . . . In the Works not only is the author never out of sight,...opinions in that poetical garb which the taste of his ago and country enjoined as the best passport to notice and popularity "(38). КОЛУ, although such...
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The Odyssey of Homer: Books I to VI

Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1866 - 588 pages
.... In the Works not only is the author never out of sight, but it is the author, at least as muchas the subject, which imparts interest to the whole....enjoined as the best passport to notice and popularity "(38). Now, although such a genius is not the creature perhaps of any period, yet that it should find...
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The Odyssey, ed. with references [&c.] by H. Hayman, Volume 1

Homerus - 1866 - 542 pages
...... In the Works not only is the author never out of sight, but it is the author, at least as muchas the subject, which imparts interest to the whole....enjoined as the best passport to notice and popularity "(38). Now, although such a genius is not the creature perhaps of any period, yet that it should find...
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