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" Homer with the heroick poets, who have fucceeded him ; but it requires very little judgment to fee, that no fucceeding poet whatever can with any propriety be compared with Homer : that great father of the Grecian poetry and literature, had a genius too... "
Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages: To ... - Page 195
by William Jones - 1772 - 217 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 49

Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...great profafion of learning has be«*i thrown awzy by fome critics, in comparing Homer with the heroic poets, who have fucceeded him ; but it requires very...poetry and literature, had a genius too fruitful and comprehenfu-e to let' any of the Rrjking parts of nature efcape his obfervation ; and the pnets» who...
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the monthly review

Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...great profufion of learning has beca thrown away by fome critics, in comparing Homer with the heroic poets, who have fucceeded him ˇ but it requires very...propriety be compared with Homer : that great father of th« Grecian poetry and literature, had a genius too fruitful and comprehenfive to let any of the ftriking...
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Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages: To ...

William Jones - English poetry - 1777 - 242 pages
...finking ; the figures bold and animated; and the diftion every where fonorous, yet noble ; polifhed, yet full of fire. A great profufion of learning has...be compared with Homer : that great father of the Grician poetry and literature, had a genius too fruitful and comprehenfive to kt any of the ftriking...
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The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts

John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...daring way; Then Newton's system call'd the world to day; that no succeeding poet, whatever, can with propriety be compared with Homer. That great father...poetry and literature, had a genius too fruitful and comprehensive to let any of the striking parts of Nature escape his observation; and the poets who...
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The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts

John Blair Linn - American poetry - 1804 - 192 pages
...succeeded him ; but it requires very little judgment to see, that no succeeding poet, whatever, can with propriety be compared with Homer. That great father...poetry and literature, had a genius too fruitful and comprehensive to let any of the striking parts of Nature escape his observation ; and the poets who...
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