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... trans- ported from the open air of indiscriminate enjoyment into the greenhouse of æstheticism ; delight in them lays hold of any schoolboy capable of reading them fluently in the original as naturally as enthralment with Cinderella ...
... trans- ported from the open air of indiscriminate enjoyment into the greenhouse of æstheticism ; delight in them lays hold of any schoolboy capable of reading them fluently in the original as naturally as enthralment with Cinderella ...
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... . Proctor's calculation . See R. Brown , Erida- nus : River and Constellation , p . 3 . 2 See Houghton , Trans . Soc . Bibl . Arch . vol . v . p . 333 . stars into a group presenting a distant resemblance to a 44 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
... . Proctor's calculation . See R. Brown , Erida- nus : River and Constellation , p . 3 . 2 See Houghton , Trans . Soc . Bibl . Arch . vol . v . p . 333 . stars into a group presenting a distant resemblance to a 44 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
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... were hunted as game in Poland and Lithuania ; 2 but they 1 Phil . Trans . 1869 , p . 535 . 2 Hehn and Stallybrass , Wanderings of Plants and Animals , pp 38-39 . may have been muzins , or runaways , like the HOMERIC HORSES . 85.
... were hunted as game in Poland and Lithuania ; 2 but they 1 Phil . Trans . 1869 , p . 535 . 2 Hehn and Stallybrass , Wanderings of Plants and Animals , pp 38-39 . may have been muzins , or runaways , like the HOMERIC HORSES . 85.
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... whose premonitory nightmare of destruction was abruptly dissolved by its realisation . 1 Iliad , x . 435–41 ( Chapman's trans . ) . The coveted horses tethered alongside having been meanwhile secured by 98 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
... whose premonitory nightmare of destruction was abruptly dissolved by its realisation . 1 Iliad , x . 435–41 ( Chapman's trans . ) . The coveted horses tethered alongside having been meanwhile secured by 98 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
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... chestnut and a piebald ; a pair of rufous bays drew the chariot of Asius . No black horse appears 2 Iliad , x . 545-47 ( Chapman's trans . ) . 2 Ib . xxiii . 454 . on the scene ; nor can we be sure that HOMERIC HORSES . 101.
... chestnut and a piebald ; a pair of rufous bays drew the chariot of Asius . No black horse appears 2 Iliad , x . 545-47 ( Chapman's trans . ) . 2 Ib . xxiii . 454 . on the scene ; nor can we be sure that HOMERIC HORSES . 101.
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