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" Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old world; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable strength, with the complication and the distinctness of nature herself; to which nothing was vulgar,... "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 341
1830
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Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed ..., Part 1

Henry Nelson Coleridge - Greek poetry - 1830 - 262 pages
...Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old Greek. world ; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...nature herself; to which nothing was vulgar, from .vhich nothing was excluded ; speaking to the ear like Italian, speaking to the mind like English;...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 44

English literature - 1831 - 632 pages
...drawn. ' Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old world ; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...variety and picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of 2Eschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 44

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...drawn. ' Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old world; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...variety and picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of JEschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 44

1831 - 624 pages
...drawn. ' Greek — the shrine of the genins of the old world; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...gossamer film of the summer ; at once the variety and picturesqucness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of ^Eschylus ; not compressed to the closest...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 44

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...' .... ' Greek—the shrine of the genius of the old world; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...to the ear like Italian, speaking to the mind like 5 n glish ; with words like pictures, with words like the gossamer film of the summer; at once the...
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The North American Review, Volume 37

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...admiration. ' Greek, — the shrine of the genius of the old world ; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable strength, with the complication and distinctness of nature herself; to which nothing was vulgar, from which nothing was excluded ; speaking...
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Introductions to the study of the Greek classic poets, Part 1

Henry Nelson Coleridge - Greek poetry - 1834 - 526 pages
...admiration. Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old world; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...gossamer film of the summer ; at once the variety and the picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of .flischylus; not compressed to the closest...
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A Grammar of the Greek Language: A Practical Grammar of the Attic and Common ...

Alpheus Crosby - Greek language - 1841 - 272 pages
...5. "Greek, — the shrine of the genius of the old world; аз universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...variety and picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of JSschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom...
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Tables Illustrative of Greek Inflection

Alpheus Crosby - Greek language - 1841 - 80 pages
...Ch. 5. "Greek, — the shrine of the genius of the old world; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable...variety and picturesquene.ss of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of .¿Eschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom...
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The American Biblical Repository

Theology - 1841 - 524 pages
...and distinctness of nature herself ; with words like pictures ; with words like the gossamer film of summer, at once the variety and picturesqueness of Homer ; the gloom and intensity of yEschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, nor fathomed to the bottom by Plato ; not...
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