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EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCLXV.  MARCH,  1846.  Vol. LIX.
CONTENTS.
The Twenty-fourth Book of Homer's Iliad. (In English Hexameters,)259
The Student of Salamanca. Part V.,273
Moses and Son. A Didactic Tale,294
Vichyana,306
It's all for the Best. Conclusion,319
The Roman Campagna,337
Mr Brooke of Borneo,356
The Smuggler's Leap. A Passage in the Pyrenees,366
Ministerial Measures,373
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THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIAD,
Attempted in English Hexameters.
[It may be thought idle or presumptuous to make a new attempt towardsthe naturalization among us of any measure based on the ancienthexameter. Even Mr Southey has not been in general successful in suchefforts; yet no one can deny that here and there—as, for instance, atthe opening of his Vision of Judgment, and in his Fragment onMahomet—he has produced English hexameters of very happyconstruction, uniting vigour with harmony. His occasional success marksa step of decided progress. Dr Whewell also, in some passages of hisHermann and Dorothea, reached a musical effect sufficient to show,that, if he had bestowed more leisure, he might have rendered the wholeof Goethe's masterpiece in its original measure, at least as agreeablyas the Faust                         
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