The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 - Anthologies |
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... lives . Lyric poems are of interest , chiefly as giving us the history of the poet's soul . Even the modern novel , which is avowedly fictitious , must base itself upon the history of ordinary men , and borrows most of its plots from ...
... lives . Lyric poems are of interest , chiefly as giving us the history of the poet's soul . Even the modern novel , which is avowedly fictitious , must base itself upon the history of ordinary men , and borrows most of its plots from ...
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... live away from them , or else to give us a picture of the society in which they themselves have lived . So long as the belief in a golden age , in a heroic past , dominated the imagination of men , so long both epic poems and annals ...
... live away from them , or else to give us a picture of the society in which they themselves have lived . So long as the belief in a golden age , in a heroic past , dominated the imagination of men , so long both epic poems and annals ...
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... live in our imagina- tion . He has done most of all men to make the history of Greece a subject of eternal interest . Plutarch is his only rival in this -respect . Had these two authors been lost , the educated public in all the ...
... live in our imagina- tion . He has done most of all men to make the history of Greece a subject of eternal interest . Plutarch is his only rival in this -respect . Had these two authors been lost , the educated public in all the ...
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... lives , but would help row the vessel to the remotest edge of the world , and as much farther as he might think it best to go . Many of these brave fellows had been educated by Chiron , the four - footed pedagogue , and were therefore ...
... lives , but would help row the vessel to the remotest edge of the world , and as much farther as he might think it best to go . Many of these brave fellows had been educated by Chiron , the four - footed pedagogue , and were therefore ...
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... lives , and fled with them over land and sea , as far as Colchis . One of the children , whose name was Helle , fell into the sea and was drowned . But the other ( a little boy , named Phrixus ) was brought safe ashore by the faithful ...
... lives , and fled with them over land and sea , as far as Colchis . One of the children , whose name was Helle , fell into the sea and was drowned . But the other ( a little boy , named Phrixus ) was brought safe ashore by the faithful ...
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Page 197 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead. force should be right ; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 232 - Isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love complain, And only shadows of wan lovers pine; As such an one were glad to know the brine Salt on his lips, and the large air again. So gladly, from the songs of modern speech Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers And through the music of the languid hours, They hear like ocean on a Western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.
Page 353 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 175 - That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise: Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 352 - Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments...
Page 21 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 183 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm; and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Page 197 - Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Page 352 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Page 161 - Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.