his finest line._] Or else Wordsworth's--"Or
hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn." Yet what so splendid as
Penelope's about not rejoicing the heart of anybody less than
Odysseus?

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He talked a great deal to-night about Homer; very confident that
he had done something to drive away the idea that Homer was an
Asiatic Greek. Then we turned to Scott, whom he held to be by far
the greatest of his countrymen. I suggested John Knox. No, the
line must be drawn firm between the writer and the man of action;
no comparisons there.

_J. M._--Well, then, though I love Scott so much that if any man
chooses to put him first, I won't put him second, yet is there not
a vein of pure gold in Burns that gives you pause?

_Mr. G._--Burns very fine and true, no doubt; but to imagine a
whole group of characters, to marshal them, to set them to work,
to sustain the action--I must count that the test of highest and
most diversified quality.

We spoke of the new Shakespeare coming out. I said I had been
taking the opportunity of reading vol. i., and should go over it
all in successive volumes. _Mr. G._--"Falstaff is wonderful--one of
the most wonderful things in literature."

Full of interest in _Hamlet_, and enthusiasm for it--comes closer
than any other play to some of the strangest secrets of hum