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64 distinguished from them. He is, indeed, rather to be classed with Milton than with the balladists and Scott; for what he has in common with Milton,–the noble and profound application of ideas to life,–is the most essential part of poetic greatness. The most essentially grand and characteristic things of Homer are such things as

or as

or as

and of these the tone is given, far better than by anything of the balladists, by such things as the

of Dante; or the

of Milton.