Some Aspects of the Greek GeniusMacmillan & Company, 1893 - 321 sider |
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Achilles action Aeschylus Alexandrian ancient Anth Anthology Apollonius Rhodius Aristotle artistic Athens beauty become Bergk century B.C. citizen classical death Demosthenes distinction divine dramatic emotion Euripides existence expression faculty feeling freedom gods Greece Greek Anthology Greek genius Greek literature Greek poetry Hellenic Herodotus Hesiod Homer human idea ideal Iliad individual instinct intellectual interpretation Isocr Jebb knowledge language learning literary living meaning melancholy ment mind modern moral nations nature Oedipus passing passion Philoctetes philosophy phrase Pindar Plat Plato poetic poetry poets political popular principle prose R. C. Jebb reason religion says sense sentiment Sophocles soul speak speech spirit suffering Theocritus Theognis things thought Thucyd Thucydides tion truth unity University utterance whole word writing written Zeus γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν οὐκ περὶ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς
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Side 261 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Side 131 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Side 124 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Side 149 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Side 198 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Side 206 - ... if we wish to become exact and fully furnished in any subject of teaching which is diversified and complicated we must consult the living man and listen to his living voice.
Side 117 - But our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never : they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness ; and that dreadful vitality of deeds was pressing hard on Tito for the first time.
Side 198 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Side 206 - Or again, that no book can convey the special spirit and delicate peculiarities of its subject with that rapidity and certainty which attend on the sympathy of mind with mind, through the eyes, the look, the accent, and the manner, in casual expressions thrown off at the moment, and the unstudied turns of familiar conversation.
Side 139 - As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.