Greek Art on Greek SoilHoughton Mifflin, 1897 - 254 páginas |
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Acropolis Ægina æsthetic ancient antique Apollo Archæological Archæological Society archaic Argos artist Asklepios Athenian Athens athletic Attica beauty belongs Boeotia bronze carved century B. C. chariot citadel classic color columns Corinth Corinthian Gulf decorated Delphi Demeter Dionysos divine Doerpfeld Doric edifice Eleusis Epidauros Erectheion excavations face feet figures fragments Greece Greek art Greek sculpture Gulf Gulf of Corinth head Hellenic Hera Hermes heroic hill Homer human idea ideal island Kladeos land lovely Marathon marble ment mind modern Greek monument mountains Mycenæ Mycenæan National Museum nature Nauplia objects Odyssey Olympia ornamented painted palace palæstra Parnassos Parthenon Pausanias pediment Peloponnesos perfect Perikles Persians Pheidias Piræus plain poet Polykleitos Praxiteles Propylæa race rock Roman ruins sacred scene Schliemann sculpture seen shrine spirit Stadion stands statue stone stood style temple theatre thought tion Tiryns tomb truth vases walls Zeus
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Página 59 - ... in all, were abroad this way and that, with the droves of swine.; while the fourth he had sent to the city to take a boar to the proud wooers, as needs he must, that they might sacrifice it and satisfy their soul with flesh. And of a sudden the baying dogs saw Odysseus, and they ran at him yelping, but Odysseus in his wariness sat him down, and let the staff fall from his hand. There by his own homestead would he have suffered foul hurt, but the swineherd with quick feet hasted after them, and...
Página 49 - ... the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty of form in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in every form is one and the same!
Página 49 - ... the beauty in every form is one and the same! And when he perceives this he will abate his violent love of the one, which he will despise and deem a small thing, and will become a lover of all beautiful forms; in the next stage he will consider that the beauty of the mind is more honourable than the beauty of the outward form.
Página 50 - And the true order of going or being led by another to the things of love, is to use the beauties of earth as steps along which he mounts upwards for the sake of that other beauty, going from one to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair actions, and from fair actions to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
Página 168 - Alcinous, this truly is not the more seemly way, nor is it fitting that the stranger should sit upon the ground in the ashes by the hearth, while these men refrain them, waiting thy word. Nay come, bid the stranger arise, and set him on a chair inlaid with silver, and command the henchmen to mix the wine, that we may pour forth likewise before Zeus, whose joy is in the thunder, who attendeth upon reverend suppliants. And let the housewife give supper to the stranger out of such stores as be within.
Página 168 - Phaeacians, excellent in speech and skilled in much wisdom of old time. With good will he made harangue and spake among them : " Alcinous, this truly is not the more seemly way, nor is it fitting that the stranger should sit upon the ground in the ashes by the hearth, while these men refrain them, waiting thy word. Nay come, bid the stranger arise...
Página 233 - I have never affected anything in my poetry. I have never uttered anything which I have not experienced, and which has not urged me to production. I have only composed love songs when I have loved. How could I write songs of hatred without hating ! And, between ourselves, I did not hate the French, although I thanked God that we were free from them.
Página 34 - ... the shadowy west. Verily it is rough and not fit for the driving of horses, yet is it not a very sorry isle, though narrow withal. For herein is corn past telling, and herein too wine is found, and the rain is on it evermore, and the fresh dew. And it is good for feeding goats and feeding kine ; all manner of wood is here, and watering-places unfailing are herein.
Página 248 - So far from dreading that your moral purpose will interfere with your beautiful creation, go forward in the clear conviction that unless you are suffused — soul and body, one might say — with that moral purpose which finds its largest expression in love ; that is, the love of all things in their proper relation ; unless you are suffused with this love, do not dare to meddle with beauty ; unless you are suffused with beauty, do not dare to meddle with...
Página 33 - Phorcys, the ancient one of the sea, and thereby are two headlands of sheer cliff, which slope to the sea on the haven's side and break the mighty wave that ill winds roll without, but within, the decked ships ride unmoored when once they have reached the place of anchorage.