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... Greek Drama . - Popular Revolutions often Independent of the Edu- cated Classes • LECTURE IV . Study of Men , continued . - Popular Revolutions distorted for the Want of Educated Leadership ; the Clergy the Natural Leaders of the ...
... Greek Drama . - Popular Revolutions often Independent of the Edu- cated Classes • LECTURE IV . Study of Men , continued . - Popular Revolutions distorted for the Want of Educated Leadership ; the Clergy the Natural Leaders of the ...
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... Greek drama and the poetry of the Hebrews : hence the English aristocracy intui- tively exalt Homer in their estimate of libraries . Eng- lish noblemen translate Homer , and write laudatory criticisms upon him . It may reasonably be ...
... Greek drama and the poetry of the Hebrews : hence the English aristocracy intui- tively exalt Homer in their estimate of libraries . Eng- lish noblemen translate Homer , and write laudatory criticisms upon him . It may reasonably be ...
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... that books are as dreamlike a luxury as a coach and livery . A man of books ranks in their minds with millionaires . On this great low - ground of society the LECT . III . ] THE GREEK DRAMA . 43 42 [ LECT . III . MEN AND BOOKS .
... that books are as dreamlike a luxury as a coach and livery . A man of books ranks in their minds with millionaires . On this great low - ground of society the LECT . III . ] THE GREEK DRAMA . 43 42 [ LECT . III . MEN AND BOOKS .
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... GREEK DRAMA . 43 pulpit stands alone . Literature has no other depart ment , which in its very nature , as growing ... Greek drama . The Greek drama was oral in the form of its communication : so is the pulpit . The Greek drama discussed ...
... GREEK DRAMA . 43 pulpit stands alone . Literature has no other depart ment , which in its very nature , as growing ... Greek drama . The Greek drama was oral in the form of its communication : so is the pulpit . The Greek drama discussed ...
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... Greek literature grew up with the Greek people . Their minds awakened it ; their demands stimulated it ; their tastes passed judgment upon it ; their sympathies made it what it was . So far as any Pagan literature could foreshadow a ...
... Greek literature grew up with the Greek people . Their minds awakened it ; their demands stimulated it ; their tastes passed judgment upon it ; their sympathies made it what it was . So far as any Pagan literature could foreshadow a ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.