 ... that which stares at us in the advertising columns of the day. crowd out the immortal poetry and pathos of the human race, vitiating our taste for those exquisite pieces which are a household word, and weakening our mental relish for the eternal works...  Journal - Page 22by Michigan Schoolmasters' Club - 1913Full view - About this book
 | 1879 - 592 pages
...and weakening our mental relish for the eternal works of genius ! Old Homer is the very fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous,...world of heroes, of human vigor, of purity, of grace. Now Homer is one of the few poets the life of whom can be fairly preserved in a translation. Most men... | |
 | 1880 - 786 pages
...and weakening our mental relish for the eternal works of genius! Old Homer is the very fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous,...takes us into the ambrosial world of heroes, of human vigour, of purity, of grace. Now Homer is one of the few poets the life of whom can be fairly preserved... | |
 | 1880 - 784 pages
...the very fonntain-ht.ni of pure poetic enjoyment, of ail that is spontaneous, simple, native, в»! dignified in life. He takes us into the ambrosial world of heroes, of human vigour, of purity, of grace. Now Homer is one of the !'"* poets the life of whom eaa be fairly preservid... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 108 pages
...and weakening our mental relish for the eternal works of genius! Old Homer is the very fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous,...world of heroes, of human vigor, of purity, of grace. Now Homer is one of the few poets the life of whom can bo fairly preserved in a translation. Most men... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 236 pages
...and weakening our mental relish for the eternal works of genius! Old Homer is the very fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous,...takes us into the ambrosial world of heroes, of human vigour, of purity, of grace. Now Homer is one of the few poets the life of whom can be fairly preserved... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 104 pages
...fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous, s'rmple, native, and digni fled in life. He takes us into the ambrosial world of heroes, of human vigor, of purity, of grace. Now Homer is one of the few poets the life of whom' can be fairly preserved in a translation. Jlost... | |
 | 1881 - 130 pages
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 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 136 pages
...and weakening our mental relish for the eternal works of genius! Old Homer is the very fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous,...happy; where care, doubt, decay, are as yet unborn. Here is the secular Eden of the natural man — man not yet fallen or ashamed. All later poetry paints... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 488 pages
...and weakening our mental relish for the eternal works of genius ! Old Homer is the very fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous,...takes us into the ambrosial world of heroes, of human vigour, of purity, of grace. He is the eternal type of the poet. In him, alone of the poets, a national... | |
 | Mary Alice Caller - 1892 - 234 pages
...weakening our mental relish for the eternal works of genius ! "Old Homer is the very fountain-head of pure poetic enjoyment, of all that is spontaneous,...world of heroes, of human vigor, of purity, of grace. Now, Homer is one of the few poets the life and spirit of whose verse can fairly be preserved in a... | |
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