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...uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high." Homer abounds in personification. In his language, " an arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts for the blood of an enemy." But we may say perhaps in sober truth, (what Barrow said rather enthusiastically...

...Arinotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good...be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood cf an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly great in proportion...

...Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out "living words:" there are in him a whirlwind, on the message flies, Meteorous the face of ocean sweeps, Refulgent dietion, which rises with it, and forms itself about it ; for in the same degrce that a thought is...