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Страница 60 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Страница 60 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or, like stout Cortes, when with eagle eyes, He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent upon a peak in Darien.
Страница 108 - For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard, All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding, calls not Thee to guard, For frantic boast and foolish word Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord...
Страница 92 - God was jealous and vindictive, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the third and fourth generation.
Страница 24 - Protagoras' dictum, and the Sophists, by corollary, were only emulating Achilles in a less heroic environment. Achilles had been educated to be a speaker of words and a doer of...
Страница 198 - ... enemy for the sake of money. It has even been asserted that he was stoned. It is clear that the cords and chains were the emblem of that servitude to which Jeremiah was desirous that the nation should submit. In a similar manner we are told by Herodotus, that one of the kings of Scythia sent Darius a present of a bird, a mouse, a frog, and five arrows. This emblem implied that, if Darius did not fly as fast as a bird, a mouse, or a frog, he would be pierced by the arrows of the Scythians.
Страница 217 - In our democracy all are equal before the law ; each man is promoted to public office not by favour but by merit, according as he can do the State some service.
Страница 2 - Sometime Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, and President of the Classical Association AUTHORS OF GREECE By the Reverend wuMB, MA, Assistant Master at Merchant Taylor?
Страница 101 - The central authority must be prepared to prove that its edicts are not below the moral standard of the age...
Страница 18 - I know in my heart that the day will come when sacred Troy will perish and Priam and his folk ; Zeus himself throned on high dwelling in the clear sky will shake against them all his dark segis in anger for this deceit.