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 1 Intro|       places,—not like Ate in Homer, walking on the skulls of
 2 Intro|     poetry also, who compares Homer and Aeschylus in the insipid
 3 Intro|     Achilles and Patroclus in Homer, an immoral or licentious
 4 Intro|    literature, beginning with Homer and including the tragedians,
 5 Text | supported by the authority of Homer himself, who not only demolishes
 6 Text |    and that, like Menelaus in Homer, I shall be the inferior
 7 Text |        That courage which, as Homer says, the god breathes into
 8 Text |     the other heroes; and, as Homer informs us, he was still
 9 Text |    Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven,
10 Text |     ought to have a poet like Homer to describe his tenderness,
11 Text |   describe his tenderness, as Homer says of Ate, that she is
12 Text |      my speech into stone, as Homer says (Odyssey), and strike
13 Text |        Who, when he thinks of Homer and Hesiod and other great
14 Text |   wounds to heal (from Pope’s Homer, Il.)’~shall prescribe and