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great poets, who flourished
at the bright period
of Grecian song, of
which, alas! we have inherited
little more than
the fame, and the faint
echo, if Stesichorus, Anacreon,
and Simonides
were employed in the
noble task of compiling
the Iliad and Odyssey, so
much must have been
done to arrange, to connect,
to harmonize, that it
is almost incredible, that
stronger marks of Athenian
manufacture should
not remain. Whatever occasional
anomalies may
be detected, anomalies
which no doubt arise out
of our own ignorance of
the language of the Ho-