And, of course, that is not the way in which Nestor roused Diomed or Homer keeps his readers awake.
Such faults have been so fully exposed that we need not dwell upon them further.

They come to this, that Pope was really a wit of the days of Queen Anne, and saw only that aspect of Homer which was visible to his kind.

The poetic mood was not for him a fine frenzy--for good sense must condemn all frenzy--but a deliberate elevation of the bard by high-heeled shoes and a full-bottomed wig.

Seas and mountains, being invisible from Button's, could only be described by worn phrases from the Latin grammar.

Even his narrative must be full of epigrams to avoid the one deadly sin of dulness, and his language must be decorous even at the price of being sometimes emasculated.