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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
William Broome
Critics form a general character from the observation of particular errors, taken in their own oblique or imperfect views; which is as unjust as to make a judgment of the beauty of a man’s body from the shade it cast in such and such a position.
William Broome.
A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent.William Broome.
By this single trait Homer marks an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey; that in the former the people perished by the folly of their kings; in this, by their own folly.William Broome.
Homer has concealed faults under an infinity of admirable beauties.William Broome.
Homer is guilty of verbosity, and of a tedious prolix manner of speaking: he is the greatest talker of all antiquity.William Broome.
If we look upon the Odyssey as all a fiction, we consider it unworthily. It ought to be read as a story founded upon truth, adorned with embellishments of poetry.William Broome.
Homer introduces the best instructions in the midst of the plainest narrations.William Broome.
Plutarch quotes this instance of Homer’s judgment, in closing a ludicrous scene with decency and instruction.William Broome.
This conduct might give Horace the hint to say, that when Homer was at a loss to bring any difficult matter to an issue, he laid his hero asleep, and this salved all difficulty.William Broome.
Passion transforms us into a kind of savages, and makes us brutal and sanguinary.William Broome.
Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers, and the ancients made use of them as preceptors in music and morality.William Broome.
Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men; he knew that a word spoken never wrought so much good as a word concealed.William Broome.
Modern critics, having never read Homer but in low and inelegant translations, impute the meanness of the translation to the poet.William Broome.
A top may be used with propriety in a similitude by a Virgil, when the sun may be dishonoured by a Mævius.William Broome.
Virgil, after Homer’s example, gives us a transformation of Æneas’s ships into sea-nymphs.William Broome.
When Homer would represent any agreeable object, he makes use of the smoothest vowels and most flowing semi-vowels.William Broome.
The Iliad consists of battles, and a continual commotion; the Odyssey, in patience and wisdom.William Broome: Notes on the Odyssey.
He calls up the heroes of former ages from a state of inexistence to adorn and diversify his poem.William Broome: On the Odyssey.
