A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 |
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A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Volume 2 William Mure Volledige weergave - 1854 |
A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 William Mure Volledige weergave - 1850 |
A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Volume 2 William Mure Volledige weergave - 1854 |
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Achilles action adventures Agamemnon Ajax allusion Amphiaraus anomaly antient Apollo appears Arctinus Aristotle Boeotia celebrated Cercopes character Chios Clint commentators composition conf connexion critics Cycle Cyclic poems Cyclic poets Cypria deities described Diomed distinction divine Düntz Eolian epic Epigoni episode epithet Eumelus Eumelus of Corinth evidence example extant familiar favour genius genuine Greece Greek Helen hero hero's heroic Hesiod Homer honour hymn Iliad and Odyssey illustration Ionian Jupiter latter legend less Little Iliad Menelaus mode modern Muse narrative native Neoptolemus Nitzsch notices Odyssey original parallel passages Pausanias peculiar Peleus poet poet's poetical poetry popular portion Priam primitive Procl remarkable similar spirit style Thebaïs Theogony Titanomachia tradition Trojan Trojan war Troy Ulysses unity variety verses Welck whole XXIV δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ τε ὡς
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Pagina 9 - While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Pagina 8 - While he was yet speaking there came another and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Pagina 8 - Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away ; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword ; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them ; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Pagina 9 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Pagina 377 - Works not only is the author never out of sight, but it is the author, at least as muchas the subject, which imparts interest to the whole. Instead of an inspired being transported beyond self into the regions of heroism and glory, a gifted rustic impelled by his private feelings and necessities, dresses up his own affairs and opinions in that poetical garb which the taste of his age and country enjoined as the best passport to notice and popularity "(38).
Pagina 409 - Both systems [Homer's and Hesiod's] have the defect of exhibiting mind as subordinate to matter in the order of mundane development. of creation in the higher sense, or the calling into existence of habitable animated worlds, by the fiat of a Supreme Eternal Spirit, out of chaos or nonentity, as in the Mosaic system, neither Hesiod nor Homer manifests any conception.
Pagina 44 - Od. xviii. 130. Of things that breathe and creep upon the ground, No vainer thing than mortal man is found. The latter passage is followed up by a moral commentary, distinguished by a terseness of expression and a depth of sentiment which would do honour to Aristotle or Bacon. It closes with two other equally remarkable lines, describing the absolute dependence on the Deity of every thought of his ephemeral creatures : — roiog yap VOOQ iariv iiri-l^dovluv avdpwirwv, o'wv iir' ifyuap ayrlart irarrip...
Pagina 377 - TI- iii т works amiDays, and Days , as compared with the Iliad and Odyssey , 1 found partly on its internal character and partly on the prima facie aspect of its diction. Its genius is; as Colonel Mure has observed, in a passage quoted by Mr. Paley (37), "essentially personal or subjective. ... In the Works not only is the author never out of sight, but it is the author, at least as muchas the subject, which imparts interest to the whole. Instead of an inspired being transported beyond self into...
Pagina 38 - The following passages of each poem, the one from the interview of Achilles with the ghost of Patroclus, the other from that between Ulysses and the shade of his mother, supply a curious example of the poet's happy tact of varying the letter of substantially the same expression, to suit the variety of the case : — &XXd fioi aaoov trrijdi — fiivvvda lrep aful<ifta\ovrt aXX^Xowc, 0X00*0 TC.T apir w ptofta y 60 1 o.
Pagina 45 - Kapirov iBovrtf, aXXors ?t <jtdivvdovtriv ecicilptot. — //. xxi. 464. The poet especially delights in this figure of ephemeral humanity. Hence, the leaves of the forest and the flowers of the field are among his favourite similes for armies going forth to battle, where the fragile tenure of existence in the mighty multitude is so prominently brought into view : — yap 0uoi<riy ,.r ,,-•• l i -,,',„„. — //. ii.