...zu gering dachte. Am meisten übersetzt hat er aus den Werken der Griechen, die er so sehr liebte. „We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece" ruft er in der Vorrede zu Hellas aus. Ihre Literatur ist für ihn „the finest the...

...indivisible. Because of the large truth we can pardon the untruth in Shelley's enthusiastic utterance : "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have all their root in Greece". We are all Latins in our sense of social solidarity inwrought with our allegiance...

...Digest. Vol. xlv, p. 347. PERSEPHONE. Poetical Works. Jean Ingelow. P. 181. WHAT ENGLISH OWES TO GREEK "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK ON ENGLISH. The Iliad in Art. Eugene Parsons. Chautauqua. Vol....

...opinion; and I had rather err with Plato than be right with Horace.' And in the preface to Hellas he says: 'We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece, Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,...

...[1822], is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece, Rome — the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors...

...their own age — "that we are to look for the real light, and colour and preciousness." And Shelley, "Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece."* The university, poor in all but hopes and ambitions, met their needs. At its beginning somewhat after...

...through this particular country and race. ' We are all Greeks,' he says in the Preface to this poem : ' our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece.' In the mighty chorus beginning ' In the great morning of the world ', freedom is traced from its first...

...their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,...

...545 545 OXFORD BOOKS THE PAGEANT OF GREECE Edited by RW LIVINGSTONE With 12 illustrations Net $2.75 "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece" (Shelley). This book, containing specimens in translation of the greatest work of the...

...spirit, however, we are, or should be, one with the great past." Or as the poet Shelley maintained: "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." We are, therefore, nearer in thought to the Greeks of ancient times than to many contemporary...