 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...exerted over the mind of man, by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments." The language of Homer, with the fortunes of Greece, has undergone an essential change, and is modified... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has rescue, in the first assault, or ransom afterward...delivered in the most bitter touch of sorrow, that The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...exerted over the mind of man, by remarking, that "nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments." 7. But, considered simply as an intellectual production, who will compare the poems of Homer with the... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...exerted over the mind of man, by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments." The language of Homer, with the fortunes of Greece, has undergone an essential change, and is modified... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...present day', has exerted over the mind of man', by remarking', that " nation after nation', and centuryb after century',>> have been able to do little more than transpose his incidents', new-name his characten', and paraphrase his sentiments'." But', considered simply as an intellectual... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...golden urns, draw light ; ' Or we may affirm of him what Doctor Johnson has well observed of Homer, ' That nation after nation, and century after century,...transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrast"Jm sentiments.' " And now to glance at the Decameron itself. What adventures! what descriptions!... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...understood this better than Dr. Johnson, when the great lexicographer recorded his judgment as follows: "The poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments." And equally unrivalled and unapproachable is Demosthenes as an orator, Plato as a philosopher, Thucydides... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 996
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has eard him swear downright he was Cel. ll'as is not u : besides the oath of a lover The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted, arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
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Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do... 
