 | William Ewart Gladstone - Civilization, Homeric - 1858 - 652 pages
...touching, the most human, of all the delineations of masculine character in the Iliad. In him alone has Homer presented to us that most commanding and most moving combination, of a woman's gentleness and deep affection with warlike and heroic strength. If the hand of Hector was far... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 464 pages
...with his habits and avocations as a popular minstrel, did occasionally lead him to make aesthetical blunders, from which many a small poet in ages of...domestic virtues and family feelings only in the case 400 NOTES TO THE ILIAD. BOOK XXIII. of the Trojans, it is no less true that it is the part of a great... | |
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But when we pass from intellect to moral tone, from bidvoia to ?i#os, we certainly find in Hector one among the most touching, the most human, of all the delineations of masculine character in the Iliad. In him alone has Homer presented to us that most... 