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Thomas Blackwell

“That a Poet describes nothing so happily, as what he has seen; nor talks masterly, but in his native Language, and proper Idiom; nor mimicks truly other Manners, than those whose Originals he has practised and known.”

Thomas Blackwell, An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer
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An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer by Thomas Blackwell
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