The Pageant of GreeceRichard Winn Livingstone Clarendon Press, 1924 - 436 sider Traces the growth of Greek literature and indicates the historical background in which it is set. |
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... kind ( though not the highest kind ) , as their oratory , their sculpture , and their architecture . They were the founders of mathematics , of physics , of the inductive study of politics , of the philosophy of human nature and life ...
... kind ( though not the highest kind ) , as their oratory , their sculpture , and their architecture . They were the founders of mathematics , of physics , of the inductive study of politics , of the philosophy of human nature and life ...
Side 9
... kind equally simple . They take us straight to those fundamental problems of morals and politics , which rise out of human nature , and continue so long as the world is peopled by men . The brevity of their writings is secured by the ...
... kind equally simple . They take us straight to those fundamental problems of morals and politics , which rise out of human nature , and continue so long as the world is peopled by men . The brevity of their writings is secured by the ...
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... kind him he bringeth to scorn , and evil famine chaseth him over the goodly earth , and he is a wanderer honoured neither of gods nor men . Even thus to Peleus 1 gave the gods splendid gifts from his birth , for he excelled all men in ...
... kind him he bringeth to scorn , and evil famine chaseth him over the goodly earth , and he is a wanderer honoured neither of gods nor men . Even thus to Peleus 1 gave the gods splendid gifts from his birth , for he excelled all men in ...
Side 48
... kind of being , except the disloyal and the bully . Hence he is the best of talkers , for to anecdote and reminiscence he adds knowledge of men and the widest sympathy . Hardship has not left him harsh or cynical or tired , but merely ...
... kind of being , except the disloyal and the bully . Hence he is the best of talkers , for to anecdote and reminiscence he adds knowledge of men and the widest sympathy . Hardship has not left him harsh or cynical or tired , but merely ...
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... kind - heartedness , Noble Odysseus , that my life made glad . So said she : but I inly for a space Mused and was full of longing to embrace The soul of my dead mother . Thrice I sprang Toward her , fain to clasp her face to face ; And ...
... kind - heartedness , Noble Odysseus , that my life made glad . So said she : but I inly for a space Mused and was full of longing to embrace The soul of my dead mother . Thrice I sprang Toward her , fain to clasp her face to face ; And ...
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Achaians Achilles Aegisthus Aeschylus Agamemnon Aristophanes Aristotle army Athenian Athens battle beauty body brave called character chorus Clytaemnestra courage Crito Croesus dead death Demosthenes Dionysus divine drama earth enemy Euripides evil eyes father fear feel fell following passage friends give gods greatest Greece Greek literature hands happiness hear heart heaven Hector Herodotus Homer honour human idea king land live lyric means mind modern moral nature never Nicias night Odysseus Oedipus Orestes pass passion Persians philosophy Plato play poem poet poetry political Priam Protagoras reason rest round scene ships shows Socrates song Sophocles soul spake Sparta speak spear speech spirit story Strep Syracusans tell thee things thou thought Thucydides took tragedy Trojans true truth virtue wisdom women words writing Xenophon Xerxes young Zeus
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Side 8 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Side 86 - Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
Side 5 - WEEP with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Side 282 - Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else?
Side 111 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Side 388 - THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Side 282 - ... and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs; and after a while he pressed his foot hard and asked him if he could feel; and he said, no; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end.
Side 354 - From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, ie what is possible as being probable or necessary.
Side 6 - He played so truly. So, by error to his fate They all consented ; But viewing him since, alas, too late They have repented ; And have sought to give new birth In baths to steep him ; But being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
Side 106 - Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also. The modernness or antiquity of an action, therefore, has nothing to do with its fitness for poetical representation; this depends upon its inherent qualities.