item: #1 of 4 id: 12651 author: Butler, Samuel title: The Humour of Homer and Other Essays date: None words: 92950 flesch: 64 summary: He continued writing it in the intervals of other work until her death in February, 1885, after which he did not touch it. I have not quoted anything like all the absurd remarks made by Alcinous, nor shown you nearly as completely as I could do if I had more time how obviously the writer is quietly laughing at him in her sleeve. keywords: animals; aunt; book; butler; case; chapel; charles; course; darwin; day; death; disuse; doubt; evolution; fact; father; figures; going; good; got; great; habit; hand; head; ideas; jove; kind; know; lady; language; left; letter; life; living; man; matter; men; mind; money; nature; new; number; odyssey; people; person; place; present; professor; question; reason; room; saas; species; subject; tabachetti; theory; things; thought; time; ulysses; use; varallo; view; virgin; wallace; way; weismann; words; work; years cache: 12651.txt plain text: 12651.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 18188 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: Homer and Classical Philology date: None words: 6686 flesch: 47 summary: There is no more dangerous assumption in modern æsthetics than that of _popular poetry_ and _individual poetry_, or, as it is usually called, _artistic poetry_. It was none other than Goethe who, in early life a supporter of Wolf's theories regarding Homer, recanted in the verses-- With subtle wit you took away Our former adoration: keywords: antiquity; homer; individual; people; philology; poems; poet; question; time cache: 18188.txt plain text: 18188.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 3052 author: Plutarch title: Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies date: None words: 278050 flesch: 67 summary: Plato, says he, writes that horses are in vain by us considered horses, and men men. 'Mongst mortals there No Nature is; nor that grim thing men fear So much, called death. keywords: account; achilles; affirm; air; animals; aristotle; beginning; bodies; body; book; cause; chapter; children; chrysippus; city; cold; comes; company; concerning; contrary; day; death; democritus; difference; discourse; divine; doth; drink; earth; empedocles; end; epicurus; equal; evil; fall; fate; father; fear; fire; fit; flesh; following; food; force; forth; friends; gods; good; greek; hand; hath; heat; herodotus; homer; honor; iliad; infinite; jove; jupiter; kind; king; law; laws; left; life; light; long; love; makes; making; man; manner; matter; means; meat; men; mind; moon; motion; music; natural; nature; necessity; need; number; opinion; order; parts; pass; persons; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; poet; power; present; probable; quality; question; reason; rest; saying; says; sea; second; sense; set; shows; socrates; sort; soul; speech; spirit; stars; stoics; subject; sun; table; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; universe; virtue; want; water; way; wine; women; words; world; young cache: 3052.txt plain text: 3052.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 7972 author: Lang, Andrew title: Homer and His Age date: None words: 96350 flesch: 73 summary: _Flaith_ seems clearly to mean land-owners, or squires, says Sir James Ramsay. Mr. Monro writes, _doma_ usually means _megaron_, and he supposes a slip from another reading, _thalamon_ for _megaron_, which is not satisfactory. keywords: achilles; agamemnon; age; armour; b.c; body; book; bronze; case; centuries; century; corslets; critics; dead; diomede; early; editor; epic; fact; footnote; graves; greece; greek; hall; hector; helbig; heroes; homeric; house; iliad; iron; late; lays; leaf; life; like; man; men; monro; mycenaean; nestor; new; odysseus; odyssey; opinion; passage; period; pisistratus; poems; poet; point; shield; spear; sword; text; theory; things; time; vol; war; weapons; work cache: 7972.txt plain text: 7972.txt