We shall have men arise and write epics on it, when they have learnt that "to the pure all things are pure," and that science and usefulness contain a divine element, even in their lowest appliances.' 'Write one yourself, and call it the Chadwickiad.' 'Why not? 'Smells and the Man I sing.

If Spenser, instead of losing himself in mazes of allegoric romance, had sung of Crécy and Agincourt, of Drake, Frobisher, and Raleigh, he might have given us a national epic in the same sense in which the term applies to The Lusiads.

It speaks well for his love of Rome that despite these influences it was he who produced the most thoroughly nationalistic epic ever written.

Posterity will think the horrors of civil war compensated by the pleasure of reading Lucan's epic!

After recounting the story of Paradise, the Fall, and the Deluge, the Paraphrase is continued in the Exodus, of which the poet makes a noble epic, rushing on with the sweep of a Saxon army to battle.

It needs a poet to chant the epic of sex.

At the age of eight, he was writing blank verse in praise of flowers; at twelve, he began an epic which extended to six thousand lines.

But Herodotus was not born until Aeschylus had gained a prize for tragedy, nor for more than two hundred years after Simonides the lyric poet nourished, and probably five or six hundred years after Homer sang his immortal epics; yet though two thousand years and more have passed since he wrote, the style of this great "Father of History" is admired by every critic, while his history as a work of art is still a study and a marvel.

They would listen to some old love-affair of their mother's as though it had been their own, or go out of their way to make their father tell once more the epic of the great business over which he presided, and which, as he conceived it, was doubtless a greater poem than his son would ever write.

Indeed, you might include all the epics of Europe in this definition without losing your breath; for the epic poet is the rarest kind of artist.

He is a born palaeontologist: that is, he can build up an epic from a hint.

It is not necessary for the author of this work to write a song of glorification for Belgium; she has herself composed an epic of valour and self-sacrifice written in immortal deeds.

Here beats the heart of the motor world; here a mighty army is evolving a vast industrial epic.

But before he left his native place he must have finished his epic, at least in its rough form; for we know that in 999 he dedicated it to Ahmad ibn Muhammad of Chalandsha.

if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.

Together these form an epic on the subject of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.

Goethe himself thought of founding an epic on it.

I should like to hear the epic of United Italy, of proud and freedom-loving Hungary, the swan-song of unhappy Poland, chanted to young America again and again, to help us all understand that we are kin in the things that really count, and help us pull together as we must if we are to make the most of our common country.

The frescoes are supposed to illustrate Firdousi's great epic, the Shahnama, or history of the Kings of Persia.

Presently Anazeh improvised an epic about the night's raid, abortive though it had been.

In fact, it is a sort of monism of consciousness that inspires all pre-Miltonic epic.

We know nothing of the author's life; but he has left as a monument a great prose epic of the deeds of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Go forth, and live the epic that future ages shall sing: be yours the glory of rooting this treason out!

He meditated, we know, an epic on Arthur, the hero of the Round Table, and had, besides, many arrears of wrath lying past for discharge; but circumstances arose which turned his thoughts away, for a season, in a different direction from either Arthur or his personal foes.

In a collection of "English Songs of Italian Freedom," edited by Mr. George Trevelyan, who himself has so finely narrated the epic of Italy's redemptionin that collection Swinburne occupies a place among the very highest.