 | American Institute of Instruction - 1846 - 332 sider
...The murmur of its waves is constantly heard in the literature of Greece, as in that of England. The poetry of Homer is full of ocean influences. Its author...spirit of its central repose, but its bitterness, its turbulence and its foam. The attachment of the Greeks to the sea is illustrated by an anecdote which... | |
 | Ida Catherine Bender, Harry Pratt Judson - 1901 - 266 sider
...literature of Greece, as in that of England. The poetry of Homer is full of ocean influences. Its10 author must have been familiar with the sea in all...and from childhood " laid his hand upon its mane." The attachment of the Greeks to the sea is illustrated by an anecdote, which has come down to us, of... | |
 | 1919 - 478 sider
...The murmur of its waves is constantly heard in the literature of Greece, as in that of England. The poetry of Homer is full of ocean influences. Its author...spirit of its central repose, but its bitterness, its turbulence, and its foam. The attachment of the Greeks to the sea is illustrated by an anecdote which... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1846 - 336 sider
...The murmur of its waves is constantly heard in the ' literature of Greece, as in that of England. The poetry of Homer is full of ocean influences. Its author...spirit of its central repose, but its bitterness, its turbulence and its foam. The attachment of the Greeks to the sea is illustrated by an anecdote which... | |
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Its author must have been familiar with the sea in all its moods, and from childhood "laid his hand upon its mane," like that strong swimmer of our own age, from whom these words are taken, but who, unlike the old Greek bard, drew from the ocean not the... 