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Strana 193 - Towards the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century, the radical revolution which the conversion of Constantine had effected in the social and political position of Christians had set an equally distinct mark upon Christian art. The age of symbolism
Strana 30 - appears to have been the process by which the lost balladpoetry of Rome was transformed into history. To reverse that process, to transform some portions of early Roman history back into the poetry out of which they were made, is the object of
Strana 27 - is indeed far more poetical than anything else in Latin literature. The loves of the Vestal and the God of War ; the cradle laid among the reeds of the Tiber; the fig-tree, the she-wolf, the shepherd's cabin, the recognition, the fratricide, the rape of the Sabines, the death of Tarpeia, the women rushing with torn raiment and dishevelled hair between their fathers and
Strana 28 - Bards were wont to chant in the old time, when none had yet studied the graces of speech, when none had yet climbed the peaks sacred to the goddesses of Grecian song. ' Where,' Cicero mournfully asks,' are those old verses now ?' Contemporary with Ennius was Quintus Fabius Pictor, the earliest of the Roman annalists. His account of the infancy and
Strana 29 - The poet predicts that, under the peaceful administration of Augustus, the Romans will, over their full goblets, sing to the pipe, after the fashion of their fathers, the deeds of brave captains, and the ancient legends touching the origin of the city.
Strana 30 - speech which had been pronounced over his corpse. The compilers of the early chronicles would have recourse to these speeches, and the great historians of a later period would have recourse to the chronicles. Such, or nearly such,
Strana 243 - post free. George Herberts Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. By GEORGE HERBERT, late Oratour of the Universitie of Cambridge. This facsimile is made from one of about twenty copies which were struck off for presentation to Herbert's friends, in 1633, before the issue to the public of the first published edition. Reproduced from Mr. Huth's copy.
Strana 209 - Oh, sad times ! in which sacred rites and prayers, even in caverns, afford no protection to us. What can be more wretched than such a life ? and what than such a death ? when they could not be buried by their friends and relations.—At length they sparkle in heaven. He has scarcely lived who has lived in Christian times. AD 160. From the cemetery of
Strana 12 - than Rome. It combined the advantages of a strong position, and of immediate vicinity to the river ; it commanded both banks of the stream down to its mouth ; it was so situated as to be equally convenient for the river navigator descending the Tiber or the
Strana 27 - In the narrative of Livy, who was a man of fine imagination, these stories retain much of their genuine character. Nor could even the tasteless Dionysius distort and mutilate them into mere prose.