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 to put them side by side with this of Scott. For example, when Homer says:

άλλά, φίλος, θάνε καὶ σύ· τίη ὀλυφύρεαι οὕτως; κάθανε καὶ Πάτροκλος, ὅπερ σέο πολλὸν ἀμείνων ,

that is in the grand style. When Virgil says:

Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, Fortunam ex aliis ,

that is in the grand style. When Dante says:

Lascio lo fele, et vo pei dolci pomi Promessi a me per lo verace Duca; Ma fino al centro pria convien ch' io tomi ,

that is in the grand style. When Milton says:

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ,

that, finally, is in the grand style. Now