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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... things of the mind and the spirit gives a germinating power to few . The Greeks are justly admired for individual poems , plays , and pieces of writing ; but it was something even greater to have explored the possibilities of literature ...
... things of the mind and the spirit gives a germinating power to few . The Greeks are justly admired for individual poems , plays , and pieces of writing ; but it was something even greater to have explored the possibilities of literature ...
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... things in Greek literature , which is always at its greatest when most simple , and he would have been face to face with a charac- teristic quality of it . We may call this quality Economy and illustrate it by com- paring an epitaph on ...
... things in Greek literature , which is always at its greatest when most simple , and he would have been face to face with a charac- teristic quality of it . We may call this quality Economy and illustrate it by com- paring an epitaph on ...
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... things which bright Dawn scattered , you bring the sheep , you bring the goat , you bring the child back to its mother . ' This seems bald to us . We prefer Byron's amplification , bringing out the moral and telling us what to feel : O ...
... things which bright Dawn scattered , you bring the sheep , you bring the goat , you bring the child back to its mother . ' This seems bald to us . We prefer Byron's amplification , bringing out the moral and telling us what to feel : O ...
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... things in literature , and it certainly secures the popularity of many bad poems , plays , and novels . They may admire I loved thee , -hark , one tenderer note than all— Atthis , of old time , once — one long low fall , Sighing one ...
... things in literature , and it certainly secures the popularity of many bad poems , plays , and novels . They may admire I loved thee , -hark , one tenderer note than all— Atthis , of old time , once — one long low fall , Sighing one ...
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... things were , That were most precious to me . In Homer they may be taken by the rich language and the roll of the hexameter ; but they will think nothing of Priam's words to the man who killed his son : I have had the heart to do what ...
... things were , That were most precious to me . In Homer they may be taken by the rich language and the roll of the hexameter ; but they will think nothing of Priam's words to the man who killed his son : I have had the heart to do what ...
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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.