The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 - English literature |
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... Achæans - was the motif of the epic , yet all the circumstances were imaginary , the creation partly of the mythopoeic instinct of the Greeks , partly of the genius of the poet ? Is it a tenable view that the funda- mental groundwork of ...
... Achæans - was the motif of the epic , yet all the circumstances were imaginary , the creation partly of the mythopoeic instinct of the Greeks , partly of the genius of the poet ? Is it a tenable view that the funda- mental groundwork of ...
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... Achæan capture of Troy , there is no reason for refusing to believe that the incident actually occurred . Unfortunately for Cassandra , it was one of the things which were likely to happen in the sacking of the city . If this argument ...
... Achæan capture of Troy , there is no reason for refusing to believe that the incident actually occurred . Unfortunately for Cassandra , it was one of the things which were likely to happen in the sacking of the city . If this argument ...
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... Achæans the barrier which the watchmen of the Hellespont set up against free trade with the Euxine became intolerable , and the Trojan War was the inevitable result . The Lycian merchants were indeed in the same position as the Achæans ...
... Achæans the barrier which the watchmen of the Hellespont set up against free trade with the Euxine became intolerable , and the Trojan War was the inevitable result . The Lycian merchants were indeed in the same position as the Achæans ...
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... Achæans , though he does not expressly say so . In ' Troy ' he represented them as the original makers of Greece , who , descending from the north towards the beginning of the second millennium , occupied the peninsula , at that time ...
... Achæans , though he does not expressly say so . In ' Troy ' he represented them as the original makers of Greece , who , descending from the north towards the beginning of the second millennium , occupied the peninsula , at that time ...
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... Achæans too early . We have not sufficient data to enable us to say who were the destroyers of Cnossus . The Achæans were probably pressing forward in Northern Greece in the fourteenth century , but for the date of the conquest of the ...
... Achæans too early . We have not sufficient data to enable us to say who were the destroyers of Cnossus . The Achæans were probably pressing forward in Northern Greece in the fourteenth century , but for the date of the conquest of the ...
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Page 130 - eyes to England's faults, about which his Sonnets use harder words than they ever use about her enemy: ' Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household lawn.
Page 124 - fiery heart' and 'tumultuous harmony' to prefer the stockdove's song, ' Slow to begin and never ending ; Of serious faith and inward glee; That was the song—the song for me !' yet the ' glee' remained, if now more inward than outward ; and so did the poet's faith in the heart of man
Page 128 - There ! that dusky spot Beneath thee, that is England; there she lies. Blessings be on you both! One hope, one lot, One life, one glory! I with many a fear For my dear Country, many heartfelt sighs, Among men who do not love her, linger here.
Page 131 - For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 131 - the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child 1
Page 402 - 1 grow old. ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a
Page 131 - art Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unnlial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 402 - I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.' Here, surely, is the reduction to absurdity of that
Page 392 - you as she sent you, long ago, South to desert, east to ocean, west to snow, West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides 1 must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored, and the young Star-captains glow.' Such melody and such imagery as this are in the true
Page 476 - digestive medicament had but little pain, and their wounds without inflammation or swelling, having rested fairly well that night; the others, to whom the boiling oil was used, I found feverish, with great pain and swelling about the edges of their wounds. Then I resolved never more to burn thus cruelly poor men with gunshot wounds.