The afternoon lectures on English literature [afterw. on literature and art] delivered in the theatre of the Museum of industry, Dublin |
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... , there is ample evidence throughout their history that they were not brave in the sense applied to the heroes of chivalry and the soldiers of our own armies . With the two exceptions of Diomede and Ulysses 6 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF.
... , there is ample evidence throughout their history that they were not brave in the sense applied to the heroes of chivalry and the soldiers of our own armies . With the two exceptions of Diomede and Ulysses 6 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF.
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... sense of honour was highly developed among the Homeric Greeks ; yet it was so , at least among that limited class brought before us in the old epic poems — the military and social aristocracy of the day . The in- stances of this feeling ...
... sense of honour was highly developed among the Homeric Greeks ; yet it was so , at least among that limited class brought before us in the old epic poems — the military and social aristocracy of the day . The in- stances of this feeling ...
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... sense in drawing plenty of handsome presents from them by these means , reflecting that he will presently get possession of them himself . Except in the heat of battle , the Homeric hero never thought of using such * Lord Derby's Iliad ...
... sense in drawing plenty of handsome presents from them by these means , reflecting that he will presently get possession of them himself . Except in the heat of battle , the Homeric hero never thought of using such * Lord Derby's Iliad ...
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... sense of Glaukus , to exchange golden arms for brass . ” * The idea of the Lykian chief deliberately incurring a pecuniary loss to satisfy an instinct of generosity , seems never to strike him . You see then , in the Homeric ...
... sense of Glaukus , to exchange golden arms for brass . ” * The idea of the Lykian chief deliberately incurring a pecuniary loss to satisfy an instinct of generosity , seems never to strike him . You see then , in the Homeric ...
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... for the pomp of ceremony and the circumstance of eti- quette ; and these latter are even despised , on prin- ciple , by men of democratic and utilitarian views . Truth , justice , and common sense , are the 22 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF.
... for the pomp of ceremony and the circumstance of eti- quette ; and these latter are even despised , on prin- ciple , by men of democratic and utilitarian views . Truth , justice , and common sense , are the 22 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF.
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Էջ 160 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Էջ 294 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Էջ 138 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Էջ 152 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Էջ 297 - There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart...
Էջ 38 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What
Էջ 302 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Էջ 160 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power "Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it byand-by.
Էջ 166 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Էջ 159 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again — A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak : its soul is right, He means right — that, a child may understand.