Studies of the Greek Poets, 1. kötetSmith, Elder, 1873 - 423 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 61 találatból.
4. oldal
... give splendour to this stage of national existence . But the sceptre has passed away from the Greek nation proper . Their protagonist , Athens , is in slavery . The civilization which they had slowly matured , and which at Athens had ...
... give splendour to this stage of national existence . But the sceptre has passed away from the Greek nation proper . Their protagonist , Athens , is in slavery . The civilization which they had slowly matured , and which at Athens had ...
6. oldal
... mines of wisdom ; he gives counsel and frames laws for younger generations . And so he gradually sinks into the grave . His acts remain : his life is written . He The great name of Homer covers the whole of the 6 THE GREEK POETS .
... mines of wisdom ; he gives counsel and frames laws for younger generations . And so he gradually sinks into the grave . His acts remain : his life is written . He The great name of Homer covers the whole of the 6 THE GREEK POETS .
11. oldal
... give place to democracies , or to constitutional aristocracies . Argos , the centre of Heroic Hellas , is the first to change . Between 770 and 730 B.C. Pheidon usurps the sovereign power , and dies , leaving no dynasty behind him ...
... give place to democracies , or to constitutional aristocracies . Argos , the centre of Heroic Hellas , is the first to change . Between 770 and 730 B.C. Pheidon usurps the sovereign power , and dies , leaving no dynasty behind him ...
13. oldal
John Addington Symonds. the transitional period . The old monarchies break up , and give place to oligarchies first , and then to despotism . The tyrants maintain themselves by violence and by flattering the mob . At last they fall , or ...
John Addington Symonds. the transitional period . The old monarchies break up , and give place to oligarchies first , and then to despotism . The tyrants maintain themselves by violence and by flattering the mob . At last they fall , or ...
31. oldal
... give form to their emotions . The fifth , last , and longest period is one of Decline and Decay . But these words must be used with qualification when we speak of a people like the Greeks . What is meant , is that the Greeks never ...
... give form to their emotions . The fifth , last , and longest period is one of Decline and Decay . But these words must be used with qualification when we speak of a people like the Greeks . What is meant , is that the Greeks never ...
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139. oldal - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
322. oldal - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
324. oldal - Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean...
140. oldal - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within; all these things, with a solid, and treatable smoothness, to paint out and describe.
139. oldal - ... agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
136. oldal - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
352. oldal - THOU wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled ; Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead.
351. oldal - THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky...
360. oldal - Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung ; Whose soul, exalted like a god of wit, Among the Muses and the Graces writ.
72. oldal - Ah ! fair and lovely bloom the flowers of youth ; On men and maids they beautifully smile : But soon comes doleful eld, who, void of ruth, Indifferently afflicts the fair and vile : Then cares wear out the heart ; old eyes forlorn Scarce reck the very sunshine to behold — Unloved by youths, of every maid the scorn — So hard a lot God lays upon the old.