 | Homerus - 1857 - 242 pages
...History of Greece, vol. ii. page 158. EXTRACT II. "Here lie the pith and soul of history, which has fact for its body. It does not appear to me reasonable to presume that Homer idealised his narrative with anything like the license which was indulged in the Carlovingian romanee... | |
 | 1859 - 686 pages
...he has correctly recorded a certain series of transactions, but whether he has truly and faithfully represented manners and characters, feelings and tastes,...these it has for its soul, and fact for its body. It docs not appear to me reasonable to presume that Homer idealized his narrative with anything like the... | |
 | 1859 - 676 pages
...ho has correctly recorded a certain series of transactions, but whether he has truly and faithfully represented manners and characters, feelings and tastes,...races and countries, principles and institutions. Hero lies the pith of history : these it has for its soul, and fact for its body. It does not appear... | |
 | 1876 - 612 pages
...collective name for an anthology ; that his poems are in the highest sense historical, as a record of " manners and characters, feelings and tastes, races and countries, principles and institutions ; " and that there was a solid nucleus of fact in his account of the Trojan War. The object of the... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1876 - 304 pages
...contended or admitted ; I. That the poems of Homer are in the highest sense historical, as a record of ' manners and characters, feelings and tastes, races and countries, principles and institutions V 2. That there was a solid nucleus of fact in his account of the Trojan War. 3. That there did not... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1876 - 296 pages
...contended or admitted ; I. That the poems of Homer are in the highest sense historical, as a record of ' manners and characters, feelings and tastes, races and countries, principles and institutions V 2. That there was a solid nucleus of fact in his account of the Trojan War. 1 Studies on Homer and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1874 - 844 pages
...have contended— 1. That the poems of Homer were in the highest sense historical, as a record of •' manners and characters, feelings and tastes, races and countries, principles and institutions."* 2. That there was a solid nucleus of fact in his account of the Trojan War. 3. That there were no adequate... | |
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Homer are in the highest sense historical, as a record of ' manners and characters, feelings and tastes, races and countries, principles and institutions V 2. That there was a solid nucleus of fact in his account of the Trojan War. 3. That there did not... 