 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 272 Seiten
...was perhaps a thought of the like nature which determined Homer himself to divide each of his poems into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus has in the same manner adapted his books to the number of the muses ; for which reason many a learned... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 430 Seiten
...PREFACE. GREGORIA LETI wrote as many books as he was years old. Homer divided the Iliad and the Odyssey into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus numbered his books after the muses. And if ever Wilkes should commence an autnor, he will never stop, probably, till -he has published... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 304 Seiten
...was, perhaps, a thought of the like nature which determined Homer himself to divide each of his poems into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus has in the same manner adapted his books to the number of the Muses, for which reason many a learned... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 310 Seiten
...was, perhaps, a thought of the like nature which determined Homer himself to divide each of his poems into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus has in the same manner adapted his books to the number of the Muses, for which reason many a learned... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 286 Seiten
...was, perhaps, a thought of the like nature which determined Homer himself to divide each of his poems into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus has in the same manner adapted his books to the number of the Muses, for which reason many a learned... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 Seiten
...was, perhaps, a thought of the like nature which determined Homer himself to divide each of his poems into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus has in the same manner adapted his books to the number of the Muses, for which reason many a learned... | |
 | 402 Seiten
...year of his death. Something of the like nature it wu which actuated Homer to divide each of his poens into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. We learn also that Herodotus in the same manner adapted his books to the number of tse Muses, for which... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 Seiten
...was, perhaps, a thought of the like nature which determined Homer himself to divide each of his poems into as many books as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus has in the same manner adapted his books to the number of the muses, for which reason many a learned... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 338 Seiten
...was, perhaps, a Thought of the like Nature which determined Homer himself to divide each of his Poems into as many Books, as there are Letters in the Greek Alphabet Herodotus has in the same manner adapted his Books to the Number of the Muses, for which Reason many a Learned... | |
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... punctually observed to the year of his death. It was, perhaps, a thought of the like nature, which determined Homer himself to divide each of his poems into as many books, as there are letters in the Greek alphabet. Herodotus has in the same manner... 
