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It represents a search for a tradition, and its capture. Good books, like well-built houses, must have tradition behind them. The Homers and Shakespeares and Goethes spring from rich soil left by dead centuries; they are like native trees that grow so well nowhere else.
Glance backward into the past, and you will see that in the course of thousands of years, out of milliards of people, only half a score of Confucius', Buddhas, Solomons, Socrates, Solons, and Homers have been produced. Evidently, they are rarely met with among men, in spite of the fact that these men have not been selected from a single caste, but from mankind at large.
Regarding the Iliad and Odyssey as wholes, they are so analogous in all the highest and rarest attributes of genius, that it is almost as impossible to imagine two Homers as it is two Shakspeares.
It was a kind plan, and gratified Jenny very much when it was proposed and proved to her that no duty would be neglected if she went about with the Homers and left her charge to the excellent lady who enjoyed chiffons as much as Ethel did, and was glad to receive pretty gifts in return for her services. But alas for Ethel's good resolutions and Jenny's well-earned holiday!
Wendover's chair were all Greek and Latin; and straying round the room she found Homers and Horaces, Greek playwrights and historians, repeating themselves many times, in various quaint costly editions. A scholar evidently perhaps pragmatical and priggish. Bessie's coolness about her cousin implied that he was not altogether agreeable.
I've that here, White-Jacket" touching his forehead "which, under happier skies perhaps in you solitary star there, peeping down from those clouds might have made a Homer of me. But Fate is Fate, White-Jacket; and we Homers who happen to be captains of tops must write our odes in our hearts, and publish them in our heads. But look! the Captain's on the poop."
And we are requested to believe this to have occurred in an age which those who maintain the theory regard as unfavorable to poetic art! The common theory, independent of other proofs, is the most probable. Since the early existence of the works cannot be doubted, it is easier to believe in one than in twenty Homers."
This architecture was the first flowering of the Gothic race; they had no Homers; the flame found vent not by imaged words and vitalized alphabets; they vitalized stone, and their poets were minster builders; their epics, cathedrals. This is why one cathedral like Strasbourg, or Notre Dame has a thousand fold the power of any number of Madeleines.
"But, Patty, then nobody will go on the first, and the Homers will be all prepared " "That's just what Bee wants! One of her practical jokes! Oh, Nan, I do detest practical jokes." "So do I! I think they're ill-bred." "But the Homers don't think that, and Kit Cameron doesn't, either. We've discussed that matter lots of times, and we never agree.
After some hesitation he handed back one penny for some biscuits, and these he ate as soon as he set out on the return journey. The little donkey went over the road through the hills on the way back with spirit, for donkeys are good homers. Denis Donohoe sat up on the front of the cart, his legs dangling down beside the shaft.
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