Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... Greek history , letters , art and poetry , in all its periods , from the heroic or Homeric age , down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? This period draws us because we are Greeks . It is ...
... Greek history , letters , art and poetry , in all its periods , from the heroic or Homeric age , down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? This period draws us because we are Greeks . It is ...
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... Greek had , it seems , the same fellow beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between classic and Romantic schools seems ...
... Greek had , it seems , the same fellow beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between classic and Romantic schools seems ...
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... Greek sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For , the ...
... Greek sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For , the ...
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