Even less are poets in uncritical times inclined to "archaise," either by attempting to draw fancy pictures of the manners of the past, or by making researches in graves, or among old votive offerings in temples, for the purpose of "preserving local colour.". From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
"archaise," bringing in genuine, but by their time forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
The most erudite ancient poet, in a critical age of iron, does not archaise in our modern fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
They do not archaise as to the details of life, but "the Homeric poets consciously and consistently archaised, in regard to the political conditions of continental Greece," in the Achaean times. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
Not only is such archaising inconsistent with the art of an uncritical age, but a careful archaiser, with all the resources of Alexandrian criticism at his command, could not archaise successfully. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
Homeric culture is evidently the culture of the poet's own days; there is no attempt to archaise here .... ". From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
Poets of an uncritical age do not archaise. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
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