The Greek Genius and Its Influence: Select Essays and ExtractsLane Cooper Yale University Press, 1917 - 306 páginas |
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... knowledge . Accordingly , for the individual , speaking more generally , the present is so much of human experience as he may at any moment revive within himself . For the artisan it may include his memory of the last strike ; for the ...
... knowledge . Accordingly , for the individual , speaking more generally , the present is so much of human experience as he may at any moment revive within himself . For the artisan it may include his memory of the last strike ; for the ...
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... knowledge , and has none of the tenderness , of Dante's Beatrice . The dialogues on love of Plato , his Phaedrus and Symposium , show what could be done by the Greek who was nearest in soul to the Christian , in representing the highest ...
... knowledge , and has none of the tenderness , of Dante's Beatrice . The dialogues on love of Plato , his Phaedrus and Symposium , show what could be done by the Greek who was nearest in soul to the Christian , in representing the highest ...
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... knowledge of the habits of birds and fishes , for example , is less important than a knowledge of the characteristic actions of men . This brings us to the last trait of the Greeks that needs remark , their scientific interest in human ...
... knowledge of the habits of birds and fishes , for example , is less important than a knowledge of the characteristic actions of men . This brings us to the last trait of the Greeks that needs remark , their scientific interest in human ...
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... knowledge can perform , is diligent to learn ; Abides by this resolve , and stops not there , But makes his moral being his prime care ; Who , doomed to go in company with Pain , And Fear , and Bloodshed , miserable train ! Turns his ...
... knowledge can perform , is diligent to learn ; Abides by this resolve , and stops not there , But makes his moral being his prime care ; Who , doomed to go in company with Pain , And Fear , and Bloodshed , miserable train ! Turns his ...
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... knowledge of the past must be built upon sand . That is true - only nobody cares very much what historians say , for they deal with the past , and the past is dead and disgusting . To some cultured folk who have read Swinburne ( but not ...
... knowledge of the past must be built upon sand . That is true - only nobody cares very much what historians say , for they deal with the past , and the past is dead and disgusting . To some cultured folk who have read Swinburne ( but not ...
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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...