Word: homer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Convocation at Oxford has authorized the expenditure of L500 to obtain a report upon the Greek MSS., especially upon the MSS. of Homer's poems...
...lecturer spoke as foilows: The Mahabharata, the grandest poem in Indian literature, dates back about 2000 years. It is a mere jumble of episodes, some tedious, some ridiculous, and some as noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality...
...Greek six introductory lectures will be delivered to the freshmen at different times during the year, one on Lysias and his times by Dr. Morgan; one on Socrates by Dr. Tarbell; two on Homer by Professor Wright; and two on the Greek Theatre by Professor J. W. White. An elementary course in Greek composition to be known as Greek F will be given by Dr. Tarbell. Dr. Tarbell will also give a course of lectures on the present state of Archaeological Discovery and Research in Greece. Professor Goodwin will not have any courses next year...
...DuBois, Invective against Mr. Flood.- Henry Grattan. 3, Harry Edwin Burton, The Battle of Gettysburg. G. W. Curtis. 4, Asaph Swift Wicks, Against Secession.- Daniel Webster. 5, Charles Martin Thayer, The Ordinance of 1787.- G. F. Hoar. 6, William Loftus Monro, Anselmo, the Priest.- Mrs. Constance Runcie. 7, William Homer Warren, The Greek revolution.- Henry Clay. (Intermission of five minutes). 8, Clement Garnett Morgan, The Emancipation proclamation.- Carl Schurz. 9, Thornton Woodbury, The Memories of Middlesex.- Rufus Choate. 10, Robert John Cary, Toussaint L' Ouverture.- Wendell Phillips. 11, Charles Washington Luck, The Benediction.- Francois Foppee. 12, Herbert Henry Darling, Daniel...
...Milton and Homer" by V. I X. shows the superficial resemblance be tween the epics of these two great poets, and their radical difference in spirit and substance. In the first place "Milton's poem is personal and Homer's is not;" then "in opposition to the simplicity, the unconsciousness, the grandeur of the Homeric poems," we have the "singlemindedness" of Milton. But at times both come together in "the really highest poetry...