Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is ...
... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is ...
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... Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did . Then we have the ...
... Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did . Then we have the ...
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... Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages . What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to ...
... Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages . What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to ...
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... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply ...
... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply ...
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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 a ...
... 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 a ...
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