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Coleridge are well worth reading:—<br />

"By a close study <strong>of</strong> life, and<br />

by a true and natural mode <strong>of</strong><br />

expressing everything, <strong>Homer</strong><br />

was enabled to venture upon<br />

the most peculiar and difficult<br />

situations, and to extricate<br />

himself from them with the<br />

completest success. <strong>The</strong> whole<br />

scene between Achilles and<br />

Priam, when the latter comes<br />

to the Greek camp for the purpose<br />

<strong>of</strong> redeeming the body <strong>of</strong><br />

Hector, is at once the most pr<strong>of</strong>oundly<br />

skilful, and yet the<br />

simplest and most affecting<br />

passage in the <strong>Iliad</strong>. Quinctilian<br />

has taken notice <strong>of</strong> the following<br />

speech <strong>of</strong> Priam, the<br />

rhetorical artifice <strong>of</strong> which is<br />

so transcendent, that if genius

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