A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, Volume 3

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Page 267 - He, accordingly, king's letter, which is very long, even in the form in which it has come down to us, is to be found in John of Fordun's Scotichronicon, xii.
Page 265 - Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame! how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 22 - O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence...
Page 465 - Varronianus. A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of Ancient Italy, and to the Philological Study of the Latin Language. By the late JW DONALDSON, DD Third Edition, revised and considerably enlarged. 8vo. 16*.
Page 225 - ... of the time are lost to us ; but there is a pleasing luxuriance of imagination which runs through the whole, and renders it still agreeable to the modern reader, notwithstanding the extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the True History of Lucian, Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the Moon, and Rabelais derived his yet more famous Voyage of Pantagruel.
Page 206 - O! wenn ein Haus im Feuer soll vergehn, Dann treibt der Himmel sein Gewölk zusammen, Es schießt der Blitz herab aus heitern Höhn, Aus unterirdschen Schlünden fahren Flammen, Blindwütend schleudert selbst der Gott der Freude Den Pechkranz in das brennende Gebäude!
Page 328 - Origen's death is the real end of free Christianity, and, in particular, of free intellectual theology.
Page 236 - Similarly, the legislator of the Jews, no ordinary \ man, having formed and expressed a worthy conception of the might of the Godhead, writes at the very beginning of his Laws, 'God said
Page 302 - ... satires and libels; in his turn he composed, under the title of the Enemy of the Beard, an ironical confession of his own faults, and a severe satire of the licentious and effeminate manners of Antioch. This Imperial reply was publicly exposed before the gates of the palace; and the Misopogon2" still remains a singular monument of the resentment, the wit, the humanity, and the indiscretion, of Julian.
Page 239 - Plutarch, to thy deathless praise Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise; Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared ; Their heroes written, and their lives compared. But tliiin thyself couldst never write thy own : Their lives have parallels, but thine has none.

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