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Olysseid. Could France
have given birth to a
Tasso, Tancred would
have been the hero of the
Jerusalem. If, however,
the Homeric ballads, as
they are sometimes
called, which related the
wrath of Achilles, with
all its direful consequences,
were so far superior
to the rest of the
poetic cycle, as to admit
no rivalry,—it is still surprising,
that throughout
the whole poem the callida
junctura should never
betray the workmanship
of an Athenian hand, and
that the national spirit of
a race, who have at a later
period not inaptly been
compared to our self ad-