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the imagery differs in little<br />

more than the names and arrangements;<br />

and the difference<br />

<strong>of</strong> arrangement in the Shield <strong>of</strong><br />

Hercules is altogether for the<br />

worse. <strong>The</strong> natural consecution<br />

<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Homer</strong>ic images needs<br />

no exposition: it constitutes in<br />

itself one <strong>of</strong> the beauties <strong>of</strong> the<br />

work. <strong>The</strong> Hesiodic images are<br />

huddled together without connection<br />

or congruity: Mars and<br />

Pallas are awkwardly introduced<br />

among the Centaurs and<br />

Lapithae;— but the gap is wide<br />

indeed between them and<br />

Apollo with the Muses, waking<br />

the echoes <strong>of</strong> Olympus to celestial<br />

harmonies; whence<br />

however, we are hurried back<br />

to Perseus, the Gorgons, and<br />

other images <strong>of</strong> war, over an<br />

arm <strong>of</strong> the sea, in which the

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