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300.<br />

to be suddenly cut <strong>of</strong>f in the<br />

full vigour <strong>of</strong> their exercise.<br />

<strong>The</strong> frequent and touching allusions,<br />

interspersed<br />

throughout the <strong>Iliad</strong>, to the<br />

speedy termination <strong>of</strong> its hero's<br />

course, and the moral on the<br />

vanity <strong>of</strong> human life which<br />

they indicate, are among the<br />

finest evidences <strong>of</strong> the spirit <strong>of</strong><br />

ethic unity by which the whole<br />

framework <strong>of</strong> the poem is<br />

united."—Mure, vol. i. p 201.<br />

Cowper says,—"I cannot take<br />

my leave <strong>of</strong> this noble poem<br />

without expressing how much<br />

I am struck with the plain conclusion<br />

<strong>of</strong> it. It is like the exit<br />

<strong>of</strong> a great man out <strong>of</strong> company,<br />

whom he has entertained magnificently;<br />

neither pompous

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