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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... influenced not merely every description of modern art , philosophy , and literature , but even every grade and rank in society . But while the artistic results they attained are so familiar to us all , the greatest ignorance prevails ...
... influenced not merely every description of modern art , philosophy , and literature , but even every grade and rank in society . But while the artistic results they attained are so familiar to us all , the greatest ignorance prevails ...
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... influence of panic . Still worse , the noblest heroes are said by Ulysses to have been weeping and lamenting with fright when they were about to be concealed within the celebrated horse , just before the capture of Troy ; and Achilles ...
... influence of panic . Still worse , the noblest heroes are said by Ulysses to have been weeping and lamenting with fright when they were about to be concealed within the celebrated horse , just before the capture of Troy ; and Achilles ...
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... are hushed in respectful silence , when the queen appears in the hall , attended by her handmaidens . And , if such was the force of society upon lawless and godless men , what must have been the influence of the THE ANCIENT GREEKS . 15.
... are hushed in respectful silence , when the queen appears in the hall , attended by her handmaidens . And , if such was the force of society upon lawless and godless men , what must have been the influence of the THE ANCIENT GREEKS . 15.
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Afternoon lectures. men , what must have been the influence of the same forces upon a hero of refinement and piety , like Ulysses . Nothing , in any age or any poem , can exceed the delicate politeness of his conduct towards the ladies ...
Afternoon lectures. men , what must have been the influence of the same forces upon a hero of refinement and piety , like Ulysses . Nothing , in any age or any poem , can exceed the delicate politeness of his conduct towards the ladies ...
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... influence of Christianity was brought to bear on European society . And yet , even from the remain- ing fragments of the literature of imperial Athens , we can show that these very feelings of humanity , pro- perly so called , existed ...
... influence of Christianity was brought to bear on European society . And yet , even from the remain- ing fragments of the literature of imperial Athens , we can show that these very feelings of humanity , pro- perly so called , existed ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.