The Greek Genius and Its Influence: Select Essays and ExtractsLane Cooper Yale University Press, 1917 - 306 strán (strany) |
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... idea of Greece as something almost holy in its tremendous power of inspiration . These are the people who are ... ideas on the subject quite incommunicable . Let us hope they end their days peacefully in retreats with classical ...
... idea of Greece as something almost holy in its tremendous power of inspiration . These are the people who are ... ideas on the subject quite incommunicable . Let us hope they end their days peacefully in retreats with classical ...
Strana 27
... idea of beauty rests upon habit . Hellas provides a thousand objects which seventy - five generations of people have agreed to call beautiful , and which no person outside a madhouse has ever thought ugly . The proper use of true ...
... idea of beauty rests upon habit . Hellas provides a thousand objects which seventy - five generations of people have agreed to call beautiful , and which no person outside a madhouse has ever thought ugly . The proper use of true ...
Strana 36
... idea still keeps cropping up , although thoughtful readers of Greek liter- ature have long since pointed out the necessity both of a chronologi- cal analysis of the literature and of a more inclusive statement of the various forms in ...
... idea still keeps cropping up , although thoughtful readers of Greek liter- ature have long since pointed out the necessity both of a chronologi- cal analysis of the literature and of a more inclusive statement of the various forms in ...
Strana 37
... idea , but they none the less reflect habitual obser- vation . Even when we speak of Homeric ' tags , ' like the ' saffron- robed ' or ' rosy - fingered , ' or of Sappho's ' golden - sandaled ' Dawn , as ' standing epithets , ' we are ...
... idea , but they none the less reflect habitual obser- vation . Even when we speak of Homeric ' tags , ' like the ' saffron- robed ' or ' rosy - fingered , ' or of Sappho's ' golden - sandaled ' Dawn , as ' standing epithets , ' we are ...
Strana 49
... idea , we must betake ourselves to the first and most cele- brated home of European literature and source of European civili- zation , to the bright and beautiful Athens - Athens , whose schools drew to her bosom , and then sent back ...
... idea , we must betake ourselves to the first and most cele- brated home of European literature and source of European civili- zation , to the bright and beautiful Athens - Athens , whose schools drew to her bosom , and then sent back ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 24 - But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity...