Studies of the Greek PoetsSmith, Elder, 1879 |
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Achaians Achilles Æschylus æsthetic Agamemnon Antigone Aphrodite Aristophanes Aristotle artistic Athenian Athens Attic beauty character Chorus Clytemnestra comedy comic Creon critical death deity divine doom drama earth Edipus ethical Euripidean Euripides fancy fate father feeling force fragments gods Greek Greek mythology heaven Hector Helen Hellas Herakles hero Hero and Leander Hesiod Homer honour human Iliad imagination Jocasta justice king Laius language Leander legend live Menander Menelaus mind modern moral Musæus mythology mythopoeic myths nation nature Odysseus Orestes Parmenides passage passion Patroclus Peleus philosophy Phoebus Plato play poem poetry Prometheus Prometheus Bound race sense Sophocles sorrow soul speech spirit style tale Teiresias Thebes thee things thou thought tion tragedy tragic poets trilogy Trojans Troy truth uttered whole words youth Zeus ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὰ τε τὸ τὸν τῶν
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Page 85 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Page 237 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 164 - In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity : every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Page 115 - Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
Page 175 - The moral interest of the fable, which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus, would be annihilated if we could conceive of him as unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary.
Page 86 - And I will combat with weak Menelaus And wear thy colours on my plumed crest; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss.
Page 379 - That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
Page 186 - Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 153 - For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
Page 66 - Achilles, whose gravestone he anointed, and with his friends, as the ancient custom is, ran naked about his sepulchre, and crowned it with garlands, declaring how happy he esteemed him, in having while he lived so faithful a friend, and when he was dead, so famous a poet to proclaim his actions.