The Greek Genius and Its Influence: Select Essays and ExtractsLane Cooper Yale University Press, 1917 - 306 pages |
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... conceptions is obscured by a gross indelicacy in some of their traditional observances ; and the monotheism in which their ... conception of Zeus as the supreme ruler of the uni- verse . The other deities are represented as merely the ...
... conceptions is obscured by a gross indelicacy in some of their traditional observances ; and the monotheism in which their ... conception of Zeus as the supreme ruler of the uni- verse . The other deities are represented as merely the ...
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... conception I have thus far been trying to take to pieces . They represent to me , either directly or by contrast , the Greek ideal of humanity — that human ideal which , in spite of its limitations , still makes the classics worth our ...
... conception I have thus far been trying to take to pieces . They represent to me , either directly or by contrast , the Greek ideal of humanity — that human ideal which , in spite of its limitations , still makes the classics worth our ...
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... conceive ; yet , when all is said , it stands as a masterpiece of delineation by the subtlest student of mankind to be found outside the Christian tradition . Greek poets now and then may elevate a tragic character above the level of ...
... conceive ; yet , when all is said , it stands as a masterpiece of delineation by the subtlest student of mankind to be found outside the Christian tradition . Greek poets now and then may elevate a tragic character above the level of ...
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... conceptions as if by an algebraic formula . The mystical element was not lacking , but by this myth - making process it became objective and real . The sympathetic feeling for nature becomes more and more appar- ent in lyric poetry and ...
... conceptions as if by an algebraic formula . The mystical element was not lacking , but by this myth - making process it became objective and real . The sympathetic feeling for nature becomes more and more appar- ent in lyric poetry and ...
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... conceptions of the State . A British citizen does not feel himself the less so if he happens to have no direct share in the central conduct of public affairs . When he speaks of the State in its active capacity , he com- monly means the ...
... conceptions of the State . A British citizen does not feel himself the less so if he happens to have no direct share in the central conduct of public affairs . When he speaks of the State in its active capacity , he com- monly means the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 24 - But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity...