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...s relating to agriculture and the gentler ways of life, agree in Latin and Greek, while the Latin words for all objects pertaining to war or the chase... ... for all objects pertaining to war or the chase are utterly alien from the Greek.” Thus the apple-tree may be considered a symbol of peace no less tha... ...ts root in many languages sig- nifies fruit in general. maelon (Melon), in Greek, means an apple, also the fruit of other trees, also a sheep and any ... ...ally riches in general. The apple-tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human p... ...employed to pluck it.** *A German historical critic of ancient life. **The Greek myths especially referred to are The Choice of Paris and The Apples o... ...ipt says, “The mo appelen the *Jotunheim (Ye(r)t’-un-hime) in Scandinavian mythology was the home of the Jotun or Giants. Loki was a descendant of the...

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...nd in his writings. And more than any other Platonic work the Sympo sium is Greek both in style and subject, having a beauty ‘as of a statue,’ while ... ... his Dialogues, Plato is emancipated from former philosophies. The genius of Greek art seems to triumph over the traditions of Pythagorean, Eleatic, o... ...wn. There are so many half lights and cross lights, so much of the colour of mythology , and of the manner of sophistry adhering—rhetoric and poetry ,... ...remarks that personal attachments are inimical to despots. The experience of Greek history con firms the truth of his remark. When Aristophanes decla... ...ed of his own free will,’ he is al luding playfully to a serious problem of Greek 17 Plato s Symposium philosophy (compare Arist. Nic. Ethics). So n... ...elf, though in a different sense, he begins his discus sion by an appeal to mythology , and distinguishes between the elder and younger love. The val... ...ocrates pro ceeds to form his discourse, starting, as in other places, from mythology and the opinions of men. From Phaedrus he takes the thought tha... ...e are many) that the so called mysticism of the East was not strange to the Greek of the fifth century before Christ. The first tumult of the affecti... ... of the age. False sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest of the Gods’ (Rep.) is not exempt from evil imput...

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...any other religion is better than their own; or that other nations, e.g. the Greeks in the time of Socrates, were equally serious in their religious b... ...hem is, that they were slowly learning what we are in process of forgetting. Greek mythology hardly admitted of the distinc tion between accidental h... ..., that they were slowly learning what we are in process of forgetting. Greek mythology hardly admitted of the distinc tion between accidental homicid... ...ine Pla tonic writing. The spirit in which the popular rep resentations of mythology are denounced recalls Republic II. The virtue of piety has been...

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... activity applies to getting through speech or reading the idea of, say, a Greek helmet, where no direct use of any kind enters in. What shared activi... ...stand are combined. Thus the words in which a child learns about, say, the Greek helmet originally got a meaning (or were understood) by use in an act... ...helmet has its use. For the time being, the one who understands the words “Greek helmet” becomes mentally a partner with those who used the helmet. He... ...he idea that “helmet” denotes a queer kind of headgear a people called the Greeks once wore. We conclude, accordingly, that the use of language to con... ...ll its resources. To take an obvious illustration: The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in wh... ...the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. The natural, or native, pow- ers furnish the initiating and limi...

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..., The Battle of Frogs and Mice, and The Contest of Homer and Hesiod. NOTE: Greek words at times appear in ALL CAPS. In text notations are in red and s... ...e, Rampton, NR. Cambridge. Sept. 9th, 1914. INTRODUCTION General The early Greek epic — that is, poetry as a natural and popu- lar, and not (as it bec... ...hessalian (while the heroines of the Catalogues belong to all parts of the Greek world), believes the author to have been either a Boeotian or Thessal... ...5). Yet it remains true that Hesiod’s distinctive title to a high place in Greek literature lies in the very fact of his freedom form classic form, an... ... of 21 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica the world, as known to the Greeks, down to the death of Odysseus, when the heroic age ended. In the Al... ...cp. “Works and Days,” l. 145 and note. (22) sc. Atlas, the Shu of Egyptian mythology: cp. note on line 177. (23) Oceanus is here regarded as a continu... ...f Athens (fl. 144 B.C.) was a pupil of Aristarchus. He wrote a Handbook of Mythology, from which the extant work bearing his name is derived. (23) Pri... ...Cyrene and Aristaeus, cp. Vergil, “Georgics,” iv. 315 ff. (61) A writer on mythology of uncertain date. (62) In Epirus. The oracle was first consulted...

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...ly in talking Latin, to which afterwards he added a competent study of the Greek; and finally he became unusually learned for his rank, but the most a... ...clothed in English; but present him with the most trivial common-places in Greek, and he unaffectedly fancied them divine; mistaking the pleasurable s... ...erility upon the name Desdemona, as though in- tentionally formed from the Greek word for superstition. In fact, he had evidently read little beyond t... ...self-conquest realized in more cases than one by the ancient fathers, both Greek and Latin, with regard to the profane classics. Intellectually they a... ...e tutelary genius of the English stage. In this transmission of the torch (greek: lampadophoria) Dryden succeeds to Milton; he was born nearly thirty ... ...reasons which it would be easy to give, reasons emanat- ing from the gross mythology of the ancients, no Grecian, 24 no Roman, could have conceived a ...

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... other ‘eternal ideas; of man, has a history in time, which may be traced in Greek poetry or philosophy, and also in the Hebrew Scriptures. They conve... ...an we wonder that Plato in the infancy of human thought should have confused mythology and phi losophy, or have mistaken verbal arguments for real on... ...d at the end of the intellectual world’ ( Republic), he replaces the veil of mythology, and de scribes the soul and her attendant genius in the langu... ...torician. 15. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul was not new to the Greeks in the age of Socrates, but, like the unity of God, had a foundati... ...f a future state of rewards and pun ishments. ( Laws.) The reticence of the Greeks on public oc casions and in some part of their literature respect... ...s is found by those who ‘have thrice departed from evil.’ The tragedy of the Greeks is not ‘rounded’ by this life, but is deeply set in decrees of fat... ...ine, attained the pure abstraction; and this, like the other abstractions of Greek philosophy, sank deep into the human intelligence. The opposition o... ...which this retribution is accomplished Plato represents under the figures of mythology. Doubtless he felt that it was easier to improve than to invent... ...own. Then, as in the Gorgias or Republic, the curtain falls, and the veil of mythology descends upon the argument. After the confession of Socrates th...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...kind of gloss of antique novelty to his work. He fabricated words, too, on Greek and Latin models, with great ease, sometimes audaciously and with nee... ...ucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more permeated even than Mont... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains...

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...accept any of the six forms of government which prevail in the world. To the Greek, nomos was a sacred word, but the political idealism of Plato soars... ...d of the master is clearly visible in the myth. First in the connection with mythology;—he 27 Plato wins a kind of verisimilitude for this as for his... ...osophy; and still less have we any right to demand this of him in his use of mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while employing all ... ...othing truer;’ or , as in the Statesman, he describes his work as a ‘mass of mythology ,’ which was introduced in order to teach certain lessons; or ,... ... or man, is above the law , and is a law to himself and to others. Among the Greeks as among the Jews, law was a sacred name, the gift of God, the bon... ... of allowing ourselves to be deluded by a figure of speech. The ideal of the Greek state found an expression in the deifica- tion of law: the ancient ... ...class easily acquire them. Hence the phenomenon so often observed in the old Greek revolutions, and not without parallel in modern times, that the lea... ...Ath- ens which he had known. It may however be doubted how far , either in a Greek or modern state, such a limitation is practicable or desirable; for...

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...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the... ...in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jo... ... of ruined villas. What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic... ...de its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Eu- rope, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic art... ...close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology. He is the friend of man; stands be- tween the unjust “justice” o... ...f *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fab... ...ense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye. In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as...

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...eat motive of action is political ambition; in this he is characteristically Greek. Like Anytus in the Meno, he is the enemy of the Sophists; but favo... ...ce to Orissa.) Fourth Thesis: To be and not to seem is the end of life. The Greek in the age of Plato admitted praise to be one of the chief incentiv... ...herited them, and they have become a part of us. The sophistry of an ancient Greek sophist is nothing compared with the soph- istry of a religious ord... ...e not forgotten their high vocation of teachers; and the two greatest of the Greek dramatists owe their sublimity to their ethical character. The nobl... ...mph of truth and right, and declares that no one, not even the wisest of the Greeks, can affirm any other doctrine without being ridiculous. There is ... ..., is consistent with itself. The language of philosophy mingles with that of mythology; abstract ideas are trans- formed into persons, figures of spee... ...any subject, have a power of their own. They are a substitute for poetry and mythology; and they are also a reform of mythology. The moral of them may... ...cal. In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost dropped, the garb of mythology. He suggests several curi- ous and important thoughts, such as ...

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... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...y to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sente... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ... exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almi... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ...truly strange, and heretical, and un popular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling block. There are, indeed... ...and swathed in linen; the death of that which never lived. But the rays of Greek poetry struggle down to us, and mingle with the sunbeams of the recen... ...een liberal, and its implied wit can endow a college. The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of eve...

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...aracter varies in different dialogues. Like my 8 Sophist – Plato thology , Greek philosophy has a tendency to per sonify ideas. And the Sophist is... ... art,’ with out any bad meaning attaching to it (Symp.; Meno). In the later Greek, again, ‘sophist’ and ‘philosopher’ became almost indistinguishable... ...eacher . Philosophy had become eclecticism and imitation: in the decline of Greek thought there was no original voice lifted up ‘which reached to a t... ...d the Sophists are regarded as a separate class in all of them. And in later Greek literature, the distinction is quite marked between the succession ... ...et down to their credit, that Plato nowhere attributes to them that peculiar Greek sympathy with youth, which he ascribes to Parmenides, and which was... ... vation. He lived before the days of Comparative Philology or of Comparative Mythology and Re ligion, which would have opened a new world to him. He ...

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...constant process of growth and transmutation; sometimes veiled in poetry and mythology , then again emerging as fixed Ideas, in some passages regarded... ...riti cisms, we must remember the place held by Parmenides in the history of Greek philosophy . He is the founder of idealism, and also of dialectic, ... ...though unconscious truth (shall we say?) or error , which underlay the early Greek philosophy . ‘Ideas must have a real existence;’ they are not mere... ... or opinions, which may be changed arbitrarily by individuals. But the early Greek philosopher never clearly saw that true ideas were only uni versal... ...eat as obsolete; the second re mains a difficulty for us as well as for the Greeks of the fourth century before Christ, and is the stumblingblock of ... ...ngs in themselves?’ In some respects, the difficulty pressed harder upon the Greek than upon ourselves. For conceiving of God more under the attribute...

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... the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and i... ...ife than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none... ... with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercis... ...it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Aeschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that h... ...st be born again in order to speak. The crowds of men who merely spoke the Greek and Latin tongues in the Middle Ages were not en titled by the accid... ...s of genius written in those languages; for these were not written in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. T... ...rils (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy... ...as a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fac... ...n man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it i...

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...of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling an... ... life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, no... ...e, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exerc... ...here it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that... ...must be born again in order to speak. The crowds of men who merely spoke the Greek and Latin tongues in the middle ages were not entitled by the accid... ...rks of genius written in those languages; for these were not written in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature.... ...strils, (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know,) it seems as if the earth had got a race now wort... ... has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what f... ...ty in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it...

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...is day , re plies that he has no time for these ‘nice’ inter pretations of mythology, and he pities anyone who has. When you once begin there is no ... ... subjects of the Phaedrus (exclusive of the short introductory passage about mythology which is suggested by the local tradition) are first the false ... ...Greece no more.’ Plato has seized by anticipation the spirit which hung over Greek literature for a thousand years afterwards. Y et doubtless there we... ...he truth. To understand him, we must make abstraction of morality and of the Greek man ner of regarding the relation of the sexes. In this, as in his... ...ulative as well as a literary interest. And in Plato, more than in any other Greek writer, the local and transitory is inextricably blended with what ... ...’). But to sup pose this would be at variance with Plato him self and with Greek notions generally . He is much more serious in distinguishing men f... ...f the real power exercised by the passion of friendship over the mind of the Greek. The master in the art of love knew that there was a mystery in the... ...e, may seem to merit a more particular notice: (1) the locus classicus about mythology; (2) the tale of the grasshoppers. The first passage is remarka... ...able him to dis card them, and yet in another way to make use of poetry and mythology as a vehicle of thought and feeling. What would he have said of...

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...the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attained. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method ... ...as been en thusiastically asserted, and is perhaps gaining ground. Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plat... ...s of human society. The one is the soul and the other is the body, and the Greek ideal of the State, as of the individual, is a fair mind in a fair bo... ... only convey, to us at least, their great spiritual ideals, so through the Greek State Plato reveals to us his own thoughts about divine perfection, ... ...olerable portion of exist ence is characteristic, not only of him, but of Greek feeling generally, and contrasts with the exaggeration of Cicero in t... ...e of the good government of a State. In the discussion about religion and mythology, Adeimantus is the respondent, but Glaucon breaks in with a slig... ...it is useful and is a sort of medicine or preventive; also in the tales of mythology, of which we were just now speak ing—because we do not know the... ...igible if I put the matter in this way. You are aware, I suppose, that all mythology and poetry is a narra tion of events, either past, present, or t... ...t you failed to apprehend before is now made clear to you, that poetry and mythology are, in some cases, wholly imitative — instances of this are supp...

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...s, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer amount of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen. H... ...ich no Au gustan nor Elizabethan age, which no culture, in short, can give. Mythology comes nearer to it than anything. How much more fertile a Natur... ...r to it than anything. How much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythology its root in than English literature! Mythology is the crop whic... ...the beauty of the land scape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Beauty , or Order, but we do not see clearly why ...

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...Scyros stole him away, sleeping in her arms, thither whence afterwards the Greeks withdrew him, 6 —than I started, as from my face sleep fled away; an... ...dy half spider, wretched 1 Lucifer. 2 Examples from classic and biblical mythology alternate. 3 Apollo, so called from his temple at Thymbra, not f... ... iv. 5-7. 84 Purgatory me scorn all other sects. And before I had led the Greeks to the rivers of Thebes in my verse, I received baptism; but out of ... ...y, and Persius, and I, and many others,” replied my Leader, “are with that Greek whom the Muses suckled more than any other ever, in the first girdle ... ...ripides is there with us, and Antiphon, Simonides, Agathon, and many other Greeks who of old adorned their brows with laurel. There of thine own peopl... ...ff by the dragon of a part of the car prob- ably figures the schism of the Greek Church in the 9th cen- tury. 26 This new feathering signifies the fr...

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... The Bee 5 The Koran 74 30 The Greeks 75 11 Houd 76 1... ... been arrested, but research has shown that what European scholars knew of Greek philosophy, of mathematics, as- tronomy, and like sciences, for sever... ...ar to have been made from the Septuagint, the Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and Greek; the four Gospels, says Tischendorf 6 originem mixtam habere videntu... ...or the growth of a new power, by the ru- inous strifes of the Persians and Greeks. Abulfeda (Life of Muhammad, p. 76) expressly says that he had promi... ...reat aversion to blue and grey eyes as characteristic of their enemies the Greeks. The word, however, may also mean blind. Comp. v. 124, 5. 24 Lit. t... ... Muhammad derived his doctrines of the Genii from the Persian and In- dian mythology, and attempted to identify them with the 231 The Koran Satan and...

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...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...ure represented, whether taken from bibli- cal or profane history, or from mythology; and, even if I did not always hit upon the meaning of allegorica... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused... ...studies theology, and writes a very formal Latin, to which he often adds a Greek postscript. T o another brother, holding the place of mercantile cler... ...ention when we came to the letters. I found an alphabet something like the Greek, of which the forms were easy, and the names, for the most part, not ... ...itness, led me hither and thither; when the medley of fable and his- tory, mythology and religion, threatened to bewilder me,—I liked to take refuge i...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...jective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half-... ...he more afflicted she is.” B. de St. Pierre. As regards the origin of the Greek gods, we need not at present seek an opinion. But the whole array of ... ...the mere natural ani- mal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a Greek or Roman with his own peculiar religious con- sciousness. In neither ...

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... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throt- tling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-sat... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular empire of Su... ...s not Marquis Valadi hastily quitted his quaker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic... ...mings in. Intriguing and manoeuvring; Parliamentary eloquence and arguing, Greek meeting Greek in high places, has long gone on; yet still bread comes... ...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ...

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... armed. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us... ... Henry as all that?” “You mean to keep proportion, and that’s heroic, it’s Greek, and I don’t see why it shouldn’t succeed with you. Go on and fight w... ...the little horse- shoes on the lower branches. Why has not England a great mythology? our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the great... ...s, but it grew in his soul. Remorse is not among the eternal verities. The Greeks were right to dethrone her. Her action is too capricious, as though ...

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...ok like a victim decked for the sacrifice?—the garlanded heifer you see on Greek vases, in that array of jewellery?” “My dear Clara!” exclaimed the as... ...e flute-playing behind the scenes, imitating the nightingale, enraptured a Greek audience! He would have suspected a motive in Miss Dale’s eager atten... ...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...e me as much Latin as I could take. The fault is mine that it is little.” “Greek?” “A little Greek.” “Ah! And you carry it like a feather.” “Because i... ...s. They pertain to the time of the first critics of those poets. Touch the Greeks, and you can nothing new; all has been said: ‘Graiis … praeter, laud... ...ds.” “I have beaten some small stock of Latin into her head, and a note of Greek. She contains a savour of the classics. I hoped once … But she is a g...

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..., and may be compared with his condemnation of the same arts when applied to mythology in the Phaedrus, and with his other parodies, e.g. with the two... ...otion, which is ‘really too bad,’ that Simonides uses the Lesbian (?) word, (Greek), because he is addressing a Les bian. The whole may also be consi... ...lity; and you say Where are the teachers? You might as well ask, Who teaches Greek? For of that too there will not be any teachers found. Or you might...

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... knows why, to swim there! I could understand better, for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea monsters, —... ...ndeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always. But there is the rough voice of Uncle George, who comma... ...did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It reminded me of the Greek kogche, a conch or shell, and I amused myself with fancying that it... ...would sing us a Latin song; but we did not detect any Latin, only one or two Greek words in it, — the rest may have been Latin with the Indian pronunc... ...n verse with the spirit of the tree he fells, he cannot read the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological ...

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... at the mouth and along the brows, even in men. He was tall, and had clear Greek outlines: the lips were locked metal, thin as edges of steel, and his... ...ose forms of faith the princess had embraced. She answered that it was the Greek Church. ‘The Greek,’ said he, gazing harder at the portrait. Presentl... ...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

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... paraphrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustom... ...e, this has the very quality they are accustomed to look for and admire in Greek. The contemporaries of Burns were surprised that he should visit so m... ...me, and professes astonishment on principle. But he has no leaning towards mythology; avows his contempt for what he calls “unregenerate poetry;” and ... ...ontent to pick poetry out of his pages almost as you must pick it out of a Greek play in Bohn’s translation, your grav- ity will be continually upset,... ...an attain neither to Christian confidence, nor to the spirit of the bright Greek saying, that whom the gods 141 Familiar Studies of Men & Books love ...

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... a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstrous b... ...bout a recumbent figure of Michael Angelo’s than about the most excited of Greek statues. The very marble seems to wrinkle with a wild energy that we ... ...uld be ‘cruel, lewd, and kindly,’ all at once. There is more sense in that Greek myth of Pan than in any other that I recollect except the lumi- nous ... ...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ...ame and for the sake of Bandusia. (13) Whatever you do, you’ll give us the Greek V ase. (14) Do you like Jonson’s ‘loathed stage’? V erses 2, 3, and 4...

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...this case, than if I had men- tioned sphinxes or griffins, whose existence mythology in a manner admits.” “As you are an Orientalist,” replied the oth... ... feared her. She was like some colossal statue fallen from the height of a Greek temple, so grand when seen afar, too roughly hewn to be seen anear. A... ...ow grown scanty, curled about his temples with a refinement of vanity. The Greek cap that he wore was pulled to one side by the weight of its tassel; ...

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...not human; he is a monster, an angel wanting wings. The angel of Christian mythology has nothing but a head. On earth, the righteous person is the suf... ...eir ideas, and said the obvious thing, after the manner of a cho- rus in a Greek play. He did not dare to give free play to the artist’s originality, ... ...owers of the prose writer; Pindar alone could give it forth to humanity in Greek that should rekindle the dying warmth of friendship in the world. Put... ...ustice of the peace said gently, addressing Schmucke. But the re- mark was Greek to Schmucke; he gazed in dismay at his three visitors. “We have come ...

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...lysis of Mind have thus invested their doctrine with an air of mystery and mythology which forms a large part of its popular attractive- ness. They sp... ...n, compare the dif- ferent appearances of the star to the conjugation of a Greek verb, except that the number of its parts is really infinite, and not...

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...te person. Mills did not give me time for a reply. He struck in: “That old Greek was famed as a wanderer -the first historical seaman.” He waved his p... ...aginations of such aunts and uncles are affected by such rare visitations. Mythology may give us a hint. There is the story of Danae, for instance.” ...