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| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. |
| William Broome |
| Critics form a general character from the observation of particular errors, taken in their own oblique or imperfect views; which is as unjust as to make a judgment of the beauty of a man’s body from the shade it cast in such and such a position. William Broome. | 1 |
| A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. William Broome. | 2 |
| By this single trait Homer marks an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey; that in the former the people perished by the folly of their kings; in this, by their own folly. William Broome. | 3 |
| Homer has concealed faults under an infinity of admirable beauties. William Broome. | 4 |
| Homer is guilty of verbosity, and of a tedious prolix manner of speaking: he is the greatest talker of all antiquity. William Broome. | 5 |
| If we look upon the Odyssey as all a fiction, we consider it unworthily. It ought to be read as a story founded upon truth, adorned with embellishments of poetry. William Broome. | 6 |
| Homer introduces the best instructions in the midst of the plainest narrations. William Broome. | 7 |
| Plutarch quotes this instance of Homer’s judgment, in closing a ludicrous scene with decency and instruction. William Broome. | 8 |
| This conduct might give Horace the hint to say, that when Homer was at a loss to bring any difficult matter to an issue, he laid his hero asleep, and this salved all difficulty. William Broome. | 9 |
| Passion transforms us into a kind of savages, and makes us brutal and sanguinary. William Broome. | 10 |
| Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers, and the ancients made use of them as preceptors in music and morality. William Broome. | 11 |
| Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men; he knew that a word spoken never wrought so much good as a word concealed. William Broome. | 12 |
| Modern critics, having never read Homer but in low and inelegant translations, impute the meanness of the translation to the poet. William Broome. | 13 |
| A top may be used with propriety in a similitude by a Virgil, when the sun may be dishonoured by a Mævius. William Broome. | 14 |
| Virgil, after Homer’s example, gives us a transformation of Æneas’s ships into sea-nymphs. William Broome. | 15 |
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| When Homer would represent any agreeable object, he makes use of the smoothest vowels and most flowing semi-vowels. William Broome. | 16 |
| The Iliad consists of battles, and a continual commotion; the Odyssey, in patience and wisdom. William Broome: Notes on the Odyssey. | 17 |
| He calls up the heroes of former ages from a state of inexistence to adorn and diversify his poem. William Broome: On the Odyssey. | 18 |
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