The Greek Genius and Its Influence: Select Essays and ExtractsLane Cooper Yale University Press, 1917 - 306 Seiten |
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... speaking , the present can hardly be anything that is past , the very form of words precludes this . We may describe the present as an advancing line , and only a line , between the future , of which we know nothing ( save through a ...
... speaking , the present can hardly be anything that is past , the very form of words precludes this . We may describe the present as an advancing line , and only a line , between the future , of which we know nothing ( save through a ...
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... speak of the Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians . The mediaeval doctrine of ' the gentle heart , ' which created a literature of its own with the sweet new style of modern poetry , and which underlies our present - day notions of a ...
... speak of the Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians . The mediaeval doctrine of ' the gentle heart , ' which created a literature of its own with the sweet new style of modern poetry , and which underlies our present - day notions of a ...
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... speak , a number of faculties ready for every undertaking , and it is by a com- bination of these that he gives to his creations their true character . " Others have reduced the essential qualities of the Greek to a single habit ...
... speak , a number of faculties ready for every undertaking , and it is by a com- bination of these that he gives to his creations their true character . " Others have reduced the essential qualities of the Greek to a single habit ...
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... speak , like an animal of a higher sort , whose function was to live the life of reason , contemplating and ... speaking to the Athenians in their decline , remarked that they were excessively religious . We are not prone to think of ...
... speak , like an animal of a higher sort , whose function was to live the life of reason , contemplating and ... speaking to the Athenians in their decline , remarked that they were excessively religious . We are not prone to think of ...
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... speak more justly than his fellow- citizens . Then , when he is asked to dinner , he will request the host to send for the children ; and will say of them , when they come in , that they are as like their father as figs , and will draw ...
... speak more justly than his fellow- citizens . Then , when he is asked to dinner , he will request the host to send for the children ; and will say of them , when they come in , that they are as like their father as figs , and will draw ...
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Seite 203 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Seite 20 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Seite 20 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower ; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Seite 48 - In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous Orators repair, Those ancient whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes
Seite 21 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Seite 26 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Seite 149 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Seite 191 - I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Seite 204 - Jove, Hid Amalthea, and her florid son, Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye ; Nor, where Abassin kings their issue guard, Mount Amara (though this by some supposed True Paradise) under the Ethiop line By Nilus...
Seite 24 - But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity...