It is quite in accord with such a view of history that the machinery of this voluminous Epopee is not set in motion by a single conspicuous protagonist.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
The poetry of enthusiasm, as the Epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh
Fox was no literary oracle, and his opinion is here cited only as evidence that the superearthly is an acknowledged element in the Epopee.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert