Quote #17

Oft in one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet never did I breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken.

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  1. As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.
  2. Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
  3. Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
  4. Homer, the sovereign poet.
  5. In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.
  6. Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. I'm aggrieved when sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
  7. But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes …
  8. These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.

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