The Greek Genius and Its Influence: Select Essays and ExtractsLane Cooper Yale University Press, 1917 - 306 páginas |
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... hands of competent writers . And indeed , such appraisals as that of the American character in Bryce's American Common- wealth , or that of the French in Lanson's Histoire de la Littérature Française , or even the suggested ...
... hands of competent writers . And indeed , such appraisals as that of the American character in Bryce's American Common- wealth , or that of the French in Lanson's Histoire de la Littérature Française , or even the suggested ...
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... hand of Orestes , was sub- ordinate to the total effect of the tragic story ; the frieze of the horsemen was contributory to the general but distinct effect of the Parthenon ; and the worth of the individual was measured by his service ...
... hand of Orestes , was sub- ordinate to the total effect of the tragic story ; the frieze of the horsemen was contributory to the general but distinct effect of the Parthenon ; and the worth of the individual was measured by his service ...
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... hands the religion of the Greeks has been raised to a higher level of moral dignity than it ever attained either before or since . ( The first point to be noticed , in regard to his religious views , is the sublime conception of Zeus as ...
... hands the religion of the Greeks has been raised to a higher level of moral dignity than it ever attained either before or since . ( The first point to be noticed , in regard to his religious views , is the sublime conception of Zeus as ...
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... hand in hand with their clear and sharp discrimination of objects in the world about them , and has led to their superiority in the mental , moral , and political sciences . Their excellence here has so often been emphasized that every ...
... hand in hand with their clear and sharp discrimination of objects in the world about them , and has led to their superiority in the mental , moral , and political sciences . Their excellence here has so often been emphasized that every ...
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... him by the embassy of Hermes the keen - sighted , the slayer of Argos , that he should neither kill the man , nor woo his wife . For the son of Atreus shall be avenged at the hand of Orestes , so soon as he shall 12 LANE COOPER.
... him by the embassy of Hermes the keen - sighted , the slayer of Argos , that he should neither kill the man , nor woo his wife . For the son of Atreus shall be avenged at the hand of Orestes , so soon as he shall 12 LANE COOPER.
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Aeschylus Alexandrian American ancient antiquity Aristophanes Aristotle artistic Athenian Athens Attic Attica beauty called century character Christian Cicero citizen civilization classical conception course Creon culture Demosthenes divine Doric drama element epic Euripides fact fate feeling genius gods Greece Greek literature hand heaven Hellas Hellenic Hephaestion hero Herodotus highminded Homer honor human Ibid idea ideal Iliad imagination individual influence intellectual knowledge language Latin less living means Milton mind modern moral mythology myths nature never Oedipus original pagan Paradise Lost passage Pericles period Persian wars person philosophy Photius Pindar Plato play poems poet poetical poetry political present Proaeresius qualities race regard religion Renaissance Roman Rome seems sense Sophocles speak Theopompus things thought Thucydides tion to-day tradition tragedy translation true truth universal virtue words writing youth Zeus
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 24 - But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity...