We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which... Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists ... - Seite 41 von Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 Vollansicht -
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