Westward Empire: Or, The Great Drama of Human ProgressHarper & Brothers, 1856 - 445 pagina's |
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Pagina xiii
... genius of the nation prompted him to recite before assembled Greece , it was the first epical announcement of that divine poetry which forever celebrates the destinies of our race . An immensity of facts has since been added , and ...
... genius of the nation prompted him to recite before assembled Greece , it was the first epical announcement of that divine poetry which forever celebrates the destinies of our race . An immensity of facts has since been added , and ...
Pagina 26
... genius of Hellas , whose name has perished like that of the inventor of the plow , but who lives enshrined in the most intellectual of all monuments , worked upon this eastern element as he did upon every other capability submitted to ...
... genius of Hellas , whose name has perished like that of the inventor of the plow , but who lives enshrined in the most intellectual of all monuments , worked upon this eastern element as he did upon every other capability submitted to ...
Pagina 30
... genius of that glorious city which it was the ambition of his life to adorn for exhibition , and crown for command . Each individuality fashioned by Homer , ex- pressed some distinct quality of heroic power , and thereby repre- sents a ...
... genius of that glorious city which it was the ambition of his life to adorn for exhibition , and crown for command . Each individuality fashioned by Homer , ex- pressed some distinct quality of heroic power , and thereby repre- sents a ...
Pagina 31
... genius coarse and unfettered by the instincts of elegant taste ; her ornaments were pure , her magnificence serene . For grace , symmetry , and loveli- ness , we must look for the best models amongst that wonderful people who still ...
... genius coarse and unfettered by the instincts of elegant taste ; her ornaments were pure , her magnificence serene . For grace , symmetry , and loveli- ness , we must look for the best models amongst that wonderful people who still ...
Pagina 36
... genius of a great era always turns toward the highest sphere for exercise , and thus preserves an equilibrium between popular taste and the direction of its talent . When lyrical poetry had transmigrated into choral song , and epic ...
... genius of a great era always turns toward the highest sphere for exercise , and thus preserves an equilibrium between popular taste and the direction of its talent . When lyrical poetry had transmigrated into choral song , and epic ...
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Westward Empire, Or the Great Drama of Human Progress (Classic Reprint) Elias Lyman Magoon Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2017 |
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