The Iliad of Homer


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"But to nobler sights  
Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed."  
"Paradise Lost," xi. 411.  
146 --The race of those.  
"A pair of coursers, born of heav'nly breed,  
Who from their nostrils breathed ethereal fire;  
Whom Circe stole from her celestial sire,  
By substituting mares produced on earth,  
Whose wombs conceived a more than mortal birth.  
Dryden's Virgil, vii. 386, sqq.  
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47 The belief in the existence of men of larger stature in earlier  
times, is by no means confined to Homer.  
48 --Such stream, i.e. the ichor, or blood of the gods.  
"A stream of nect'rous humour issuing flow'd,  
Sanguine, such as celestial spirits may bleed."  
"Paradise Lost," vi. 339.  
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