Essays: First series, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - 343 pages |
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... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
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... Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national ...
... Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ? What but this , that every man passes personally ...
... 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 ? What but this , that every man passes personally ...
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