No one knows the truth of the legend, any more than whether Homer was a man or a myth.

I therefore imagine the phrases to be elliptical: "Verè Metellus," may mean, "This is truly Metellus;" and "Homerus planè orator," "Homer was plainly an orator."

And as Homer was the creator of Grecian literature, so Dante, by his immortal comedy, gave the first great impulse to Italian thought.

Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem Prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the Books you need.

It is certain that Rosa Taddei gives as fine thoughts as are to be met with in most poets, and I am very much tempted to incline to Forsyth's opinion that Homer himself was neither more nor less than an improvisatore, the Greek language affording nearly as many poetic licences as the Italian, and the faculty of heaping epithet on epithet being common in both languages.

There is, of course, one tremendous exception; Homer is the one poet of authentic epic who had sufficient genius to make unfailingly, nobly beautiful poetry within the strict and hard conditions of purely auricular art.

Homer, Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare are the lineal descendants of the man who made holes in a leaf, or lines on a wave-washed sand.

The Homer of Chapman is so precious a gift, that we are ready to forgive all Mr. Smith's shortcomings in consideration of it.

"Homer was the greater genius; Virgil the better artist.

Homer, Tennyson, Browning, and Dante are exegetes, no less than Lightfoot, Lange, and Schaff.

Homer is the simplest and most unaffected of poets.

Old Homer, too, had gone the way of all baked clay.

" Chapman's Homer was the folio which Leigh Hunt tells us he once saw Lamb kiss.

It is certain that both Homer and Virgil were Masters of all the Learning of their Times, but it shews it self in their Works after an indirect and concealed manner.

In the panel which represents Hellenic civilization, Homer is the central figure; this composition pleased me least of all.

It is not to Vico or Wolfe that we refer, when we say that Homer is vox et praeterea nihil; as musical as the nightingale, and as invisible....

It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks.

Homer, Virgil, Dante, Cervantes, Shakspere, Scott, were all earnest ethical teachers.

No, little as you may have been known before you were masters, you were yet known enough for us to assert that one of youwhom I will name: M. Lefrançaiswished in 1848 to set fire to the Salon Carré; there is another of youwhom I will also name: M. Jules Vallèsasserts that Homer was an old fool.