The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in 1892 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the Johns Hopkins UniversityMacmillan, 1893 - 290 halaman |
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... manner , varied only by bombast , and their exultation in the most horrible cruelties , help us to conceive the condition of the Assyrians under autocrats who thus decorated the walls of their palaces . The sacerdotal despotism of Egypt ...
... manner , varied only by bombast , and their exultation in the most horrible cruelties , help us to conceive the condition of the Assyrians under autocrats who thus decorated the walls of their palaces . The sacerdotal despotism of Egypt ...
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... manner of dealing with religion ! The Hellenic gods and goddesses are glorified men and women , human in love , hate , and guile , superhuman in power and in beauty ; they speak the same language as the human heroes , -noble , yet ...
... manner of dealing with religion ! The Hellenic gods and goddesses are glorified men and women , human in love , hate , and guile , superhuman in power and in beauty ; they speak the same language as the human heroes , -noble , yet ...
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... manner of gently preparing her mind for the announcement that her husband has returned . He pretends to be a Cretan , a certain Aethon , who has known Odysseus ; yes , and he has heard on good authority that Odysseus is safe that he is ...
... manner of gently preparing her mind for the announcement that her husband has returned . He pretends to be a Cretan , a certain Aethon , who has known Odysseus ; yes , and he has heard on good authority that Odysseus is safe that he is ...
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... manner is noble , whatever the subject may be , as Nobleness . he is always also simple and uncon- strained ; and here the snare for the modern translator is that , in trying to be unconstrained , he is apt to become ignoble ; that is ...
... manner is noble , whatever the subject may be , as Nobleness . he is always also simple and uncon- strained ; and here the snare for the modern translator is that , in trying to be unconstrained , he is apt to become ignoble ; that is ...
Halaman 64
... manner which broadly separates them from all other compositions . To those who regard the epics from a little distance , and not from those closer points of view which have been gained by modern criticism , it will not appear ...
... manner which broadly separates them from all other compositions . To those who regard the epics from a little distance , and not from those closer points of view which have been gained by modern criticism , it will not appear ...
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Halaman 230 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Halaman xiii - Thy hopes grow timorous, and unfixed thy powers, And thy clear aims be cross and shifting made: And then thy glad perennial youth would fade, Fade, and grow old at last, and die like ours.
Halaman 230 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Halaman 213 - I am satisfied if it cause delight. For delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy. Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights.
Halaman 42 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
Halaman 225 - ... activity, the whole play of the universal order, to be apprehensive of missing any part of it, of sacrificing one part to another, to slip away from resting in this or that intimation of it, however capital.
Halaman 42 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
Halaman 59 - Be not wroth with me hereat, goddess and queen. Myself I know it well, how wise Penelope is meaner to look upon than thou, in comeliness and stature. But she is mortal and thou knowest not age nor death. Yet even so, I wish and long day by day to fare homeward and see the day of my returning. Yea, and if some god...
Halaman 43 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Halaman 203 - I see not then, but we should enjoy the same license, or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention, as they did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would thrust upon us.