VirgilMethuen, 1912 - 343 Seiten |
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... moral and intellectual development in advance of his predecessors . At the same time it must be remembered that a great poet will generally also be in advance of his contemporaries in the fullness with which he realizes the life of his ...
... moral and intellectual development in advance of his predecessors . At the same time it must be remembered that a great poet will generally also be in advance of his contemporaries in the fullness with which he realizes the life of his ...
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... moral and intellectual decadence . The old ideals of the Roman farmer- state were already shaken before the conquest of the East flooded Rome with the ideas and the luxury of Greece and of Asia . The old dignity gave place to the ...
... moral and intellectual decadence . The old ideals of the Roman farmer- state were already shaken before the conquest of the East flooded Rome with the ideas and the luxury of Greece and of Asia . The old dignity gave place to the ...
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... moral death , " says Carlyle , " there is a new birth ; in this wondrous course of his , man may indeed linger , but cannot retrograde or stand still . " We see then 1 Polybius opens his history by reference to the subjugation of almost ...
... moral death , " says Carlyle , " there is a new birth ; in this wondrous course of his , man may indeed linger , but cannot retrograde or stand still . " We see then 1 Polybius opens his history by reference to the subjugation of almost ...
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... moral anticipated— tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.3 1 Euripides was also Milton's favourite among the Greek tragic poets . Cf. Courthope , Hist . English Poetry , iii . p . 448 . 2 Cf. W. Nestle , Euripides der Dichter der ...
... moral anticipated— tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.3 1 Euripides was also Milton's favourite among the Greek tragic poets . Cf. Courthope , Hist . English Poetry , iii . p . 448 . 2 Cf. W. Nestle , Euripides der Dichter der ...
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... moral evil and of good , than all the sages can , ' such a proposition cannot seriously be taken as more than a half - playful sally for the benefit of some too bookish friend . No impulse from a vernal wood can teach us anything at all ...
... moral evil and of good , than all the sages can , ' such a proposition cannot seriously be taken as more than a half - playful sally for the benefit of some too bookish friend . No impulse from a vernal wood can teach us anything at all ...
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Seite 89 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Seite 155 - And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! look! her lips! Look there, look there!
Seite 125 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent; Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento : Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Seite 55 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came. Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below,— The canticles of love and woe...
Seite 159 - I did consent, And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Seite 47 - I have attempted to convey, will break in upon the sanctity and truth of his pictures by transitory and accidental ornaments, and endeavour to excite admiration of himself by arts, the necessity of which must manifestly depend upon the assumed meanness of his subject.
Seite 252 - ... there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it ; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world, that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account...
Seite 12 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna : Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
Seite 67 - Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero. For infinitely various are the incidents in one man's life which cannot be reduced to unity; and so, too, there are many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one action.
Seite 115 - If any beat a horse, you felt he saw ; If any cursed a woman, he took note ; Yet stared at nobody, — you stared at him, , And found, less to your pleasure than surprise, He seemed to know you and expect as much.