 He wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment ; the Ilias he made for the men, and the Odysse'is for the other sex.  The Quarterly Review - Page 378edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pages
...ancient writer; on this subject are strong, clear, and remarkable. They induced Bentley to affirm, that " these loose songs were not collected together into the form of an epic poem till about 500 years after" the age of Homer. The circumstance is thus described by a living historian,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 706 pages
...ancieat writers on this subject are strong, clear, and remarkable. They induced Bentley to affirm, that " these loose songs were not collected together into the form of an epic poein till about 500 years after" the age of Homer. The circumstance is thus described by a living... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1830 - 262 pages
...earnings and good cheer, at Festivals and other days of merriment : the Iliad lie made for the men, and the Odysseis for the other sex. These loose Songs were not collected together in the form of an Epic Poem till about 500 years after."— Letter to NN by Phileleuth. Lipsiens. s.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pages
...earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment: the Iliad he made for the men, and the Odysseis for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till about Pisistratus' time, about five hundred years after." t Jacob... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 574 pages
...earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment 5 the flias he made for the men, and the Odysse'is for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till Pisistratus's time, abovef 500 years after. Nor is there one word... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pages
...earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment ; the Ilias he made for the men, and the Odysse'is for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till Pisistratus's time, abovef 500 years after. Nor is there one word... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 pages
...earnings and good cheer at festivals and other days of merriment. The Iliad he made for the men and the Odysseis for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till Pisistratus's time, about five hundred years after." Whether all these... | |
 | George Grote - 1846 - 662 pages
...by himself for small earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment; the Iliad he made for the men, the Odysseis for the other sex....into the form of an epic poem until 500 years after." This hypothesis—to which the genius of Wolf first gave celebrity, but which has been since enforced... | |
 | 1857 - 924 pages
...Collins' s Discourse on Free Thinking: 1713) says : " Homer wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies. These loose songs were not collected together, into the form of an Epic poem, until five hundred years later." Vico (Principii di Una Scienza Nuova : 1725) says : " Homer left none of... | |
 | William Smith - 1854 - 676 pages
...good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment; the Iliad he made for the men. the Oilysseis for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected...into the form of an epic poem until 500 years after." (BC 620). In the Homeric poems themselves there is not a single trace of the art of writing.* We find... | |
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