The Outline of Literature, Band 1John Drinkwater G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923 - 1136 Seiten |
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... epics . The rhapsodists travelled from town to town like a modern theatrical company on tour , and the poems and legends that they learned by heart were the stock - in - trade that secured them a living . 1 Alexandria succeeded Athens ...
... epics . The rhapsodists travelled from town to town like a modern theatrical company on tour , and the poems and legends that they learned by heart were the stock - in - trade that secured them a living . 1 Alexandria succeeded Athens ...
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... epics of Homer and the earlier books of the Bible . BIBLIOGRAPHY For the early forms of books - i.e . the codex ; writing with the stilus , etc. -see Sir E. Maunde Thompson's Handbook of Greek and Latin Palæography . F. A. Mumby's The ...
... epics of Homer and the earlier books of the Bible . BIBLIOGRAPHY For the early forms of books - i.e . the codex ; writing with the stilus , etc. -see Sir E. Maunde Thompson's Handbook of Greek and Latin Palæography . F. A. Mumby's The ...
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... epic in every western age that knew them , or the works that perpetuated their pattern ( e.g. Virgil's Eneid ) . It is probable that we should never have had the " artificial epics , " as they have been called , of Virgil , Lucan ...
... epic in every western age that knew them , or the works that perpetuated their pattern ( e.g. Virgil's Eneid ) . It is probable that we should never have had the " artificial epics , " as they have been called , of Virgil , Lucan ...
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... epic written in these democratic days . In the battle - pieces all we perceive of the nameless hosts is the bronzen glow of their harness , the hubbub of their cries , the storm of their stones - and they fade away into serried ...
... epic written in these democratic days . In the battle - pieces all we perceive of the nameless hosts is the bronzen glow of their harness , the hubbub of their cries , the storm of their stones - and they fade away into serried ...
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... epic to a loftier range of emotion . Even the Greek critics , trained in the higher and more intense life of Greek tragedy , have seen that anger at the loss of a girl slave was an inadequate motive for " sulking in one's tent " ; only ...
... epic to a loftier range of emotion . Even the Greek critics , trained in the higher and more intense life of Greek tragedy , have seen that anger at the loss of a girl slave was an inadequate motive for " sulking in one's tent " ; only ...
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Seite 93 - gloomy, but the last chapter is superb in its English dress. "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as was: and the spirit shall return unto
Seite 130 - And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said. Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
Seite 166 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;
Seite 263 - hire to countrefete cheere Of Court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. But for to speken of hire conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale
Seite 125 - they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. He suffered no man to do them wrong: Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, "Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
Seite 263 - she was nat undergrowe. Ful fetys was hir cloke, as I was war; Of smal coral aboute hire arm she bar A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene, And ther-on heng a brooch of gold ful sheene, On which ther was first write a crowned A, And after
Seite 121 - *'Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? . . . Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, before I go whence I shall not
Seite 124 - covenant which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant: Saying, "Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance": When they were but a few men in number;
Seite 117 - we seem to be reading the Bible through the medium of his own words. Take these words of Mr. Greatheart in the Valley of the Shadow: This is like doing business in great Waters, or like going down into the deep; this is like being in the heart of the
Seite 135 - Such as found out musical tunes, And recited verses in writing, Rich men furnished with ability, Living peaceably in their habitations. All these were honoured in their generations, And were the glory of their times. Their seed shall remain