 | English essays - 1830 - 710 pages
...picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and intensity of /Eschylus ; not coinpressed to the closet by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato, not sounding with all its thunders, nor lit up with all its ardour, even under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes — and " LATIN — the voice of Empire and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 716 pages
...of Homer, the gloom and intensity of . I i li; lus ; not compressed to the closet by Thucydidet, Dot fathomed to the bottom by Plato, not sounding with all its thunders, nor lit up with all its ardour, even under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes — and " LATIN — the voice of Kinpire and... | |
 | 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
...picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of JEschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato ; — not sounding with all its thunders, nor lit up with all its ardours, even under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes. And Latin — the voice of empire and of war,... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...picturesqucness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of ^Eschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato ; — not sounding with all its thunders, nor lit up with all its ardours, even under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes. And Latin — the voice of empire and of war,... | |
 | 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
...of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of .HSschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato ;—not sounding with all its thunders, nor lit up with all its ardours, even. under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes. And Latin—the voice of empire and of war,... | |
 | Sidney Willard - American literature - 1832 - 560 pages
...and now investing it with the terrors of Heaven's lightning, reminds us of the ancient Greek, when " lit up with all its ardors, even under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes." We make no quotations, but bid the reader to repeat from his memory the sublime conclusion of the Plymouth... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of jEschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato, not sounding...ardors, even under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes ! And Latin, — the voice of empire and of war, of law and of the state ; inferior to its half-parent... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - Greek poetry - 1834 - 526 pages
...of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of .flischylus; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato, not sounding with all its thunders, nor lit up with all its ardours even under the Promethean touch of Demosthenes ! And Latin — the voice of empire and of war,... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - Greek language - 1841 - 272 pages
...picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of JSschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato, not sounding...Gen. Introd. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841 , by CROCKER AND BREWSTER, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the" District... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - Greek language - 1841 - 80 pages
...of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of .¿Eschylus ; not compressed to the closest by Thucydides, not fathomed to the bottom by Plato, not sounding...Gen. Introd. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by CROCKER AND BREWSTER, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the District... | |
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... was excluded; speaking to the ear like Italian, speaking to the mind like English; with words like pictures, with words like the gossamer film of the summer; at once the variety and picturesqueness of Homer, the gloom and the intensity of... 
