Illustrated History of Ancient Literature, Oriental and ClassicalHarper & brothers, 1878 - 432 pages |
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... verse . Later times have not failed to per- petuate the taste , and measurably the ability ; epic poetry has been cultivated by all the Indo - European nations , and to them it has been confined . - Contemporaneously with Homer , native ...
... verse . Later times have not failed to per- petuate the taste , and measurably the ability ; epic poetry has been cultivated by all the Indo - European nations , and to them it has been confined . - Contemporaneously with Homer , native ...
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... verse , and historians arise to record her exploits . Athens , who faced the enemy at Marathon , Salamis , and Platæa , and drove him back crippled and disgraced to Asia , now becomes the leader of grateful Hellas , and the centre of ...
... verse , and historians arise to record her exploits . Athens , who faced the enemy at Marathon , Salamis , and Platæa , and drove him back crippled and disgraced to Asia , now becomes the leader of grateful Hellas , and the centre of ...
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... verse now bloomed for the first time on European soil , and with fine ef- fect ; but it was in far - off Syracuse , not in classic Greece . Here the deepening twilight was fatal to literary growth ; and when Egypt fell beneath the power ...
... verse now bloomed for the first time on European soil , and with fine ef- fect ; but it was in far - off Syracuse , not in classic Greece . Here the deepening twilight was fatal to literary growth ; and when Egypt fell beneath the power ...
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... verse ; it is distinguished from prose , like Greek poetry , simply by a met- rical arrangement of long and short syllables . The measured cadence gave great delight to the cultivated ear of the Hin- गणित BRAHMAN PRIEST . doos ...
... verse ; it is distinguished from prose , like Greek poetry , simply by a met- rical arrangement of long and short syllables . The measured cadence gave great delight to the cultivated ear of the Hin- गणित BRAHMAN PRIEST . doos ...
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... verse the mythology of India and the his- tory of its legendary age . Religion of the Veda . - The Supreme Being first acknowl- edged by the Aryans was gradually lost sight of , and a worship of Nature arose . In the 1,028 hymns of the ...
... verse the mythology of India and the his- tory of its legendary age . Religion of the Veda . - The Supreme Being first acknowl- edged by the Aryans was gradually lost sight of , and a worship of Nature arose . In the 1,028 hymns of the ...
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Page 168 - One may see by what is left of them, that she followed nature in all her thoughts, without descending to those little points, conceits, and turns of wit, with which many of our modern lyrics are so miserably infected. Her soul seems to have been made up of love and poetry : she felt the passion in all its warmth, and, described it in all its symptoms.
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Page 89 - ... The poetical conformation of the sentences, which has been so often alluded to as characteristic of the Hebrew poetry, consists chiefly in a certain equality, resemblance, or parallelism between the members of each period ; so that in two lines (or members of the same period) things for the most part shall answer to things, and words to words, as if fitted to each other by a kind of rule or measure.
Page 169 - O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. "In dewy damps my limbs were chilled; My blood with gentle horrors thrilled; My feeble pulse forgot to play, I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Page 170 - Thou once didst leave almighty Jove, And all the golden roofs above : The car thy wanton sparrows drew, Hovering in air they lightly flew ; As to my bower they wing'd their way, 1 saw their quivering pinions play.
Page 246 - Then he turned to us, and added with a smile: — I can not make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who has been talking and conducting the argument; he fancies that I am the other Socrates whom he will soon see, a dead body — and he asks, How shall he bury me? And though...