 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, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might...  Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... - עמוד 509נערך על ידי - 1880 - 573 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1928 - 432 דפים
...Grammarian and His Material BY JM WATTIE THE GRAMMARIAN AND HIS MATERIAL are all Greeks', says Shelley. ' Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece.' Here no doubt is something of an over-statement. In the domain of law we still have some regard to... | |
 | 1911 - 568 דפים
...indivisible. Because of the larger 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... | |
 | 1921 - 772 דפים
...his, in the splendid Preface to ' Hellas,' written in the first year of the War of Independence. ' We are all Greeks : our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece." "That is the unbreakable tie. That is the immortal bond." VIA. — THE MARRIAGE or M. VENIZELOS The... | |
 | United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division - 1953 - 100 דפים
...rails. And the many big trucks you may meet travel fast and hog the road. 261176°— 53 THE GREEKS "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece." — Percy liysshe Shelley The Greeks are a friendly people and you'll very likely meet a great many... | |
 | University of Colorado - 1903 - 334 דפים
...Titus. " GREEK SOURCES OF SHELLEY'S ADONAIS(I) BY QKORGE NORLIM "We are all Greeks," says Shelley, "our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece." <*' The essential truth in this enthusiastic utterance of Shelley will ever make a knowledge of Greek... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 דפים
...See p. 413. 675 Notes on 19. THE TIME OF REVOLUTION, § 4: ENGLAND 1. Shelley, preface to Hellas : 'We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1985 - 182 דפים
...Shelley's philhellenism, like Byron's, was a nostalgic attachment to their image of a human civilization. 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,... | |
 | Martin Bernal - 2008 - 612 דפים
...With the beginning of the War in 1821, enthusiasm for Greece rose to fever pitch. As Shelley wrote: We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts all have their roots in Greece. But for Greece ... we might still have been savages and idolators .... | |
 | Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1988 - 385 דפים
...issue of arms. Shelley's Hellas (1821) begins with one of his inimitable prefaces, in which he states: "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. . . . The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in Greece . . . those... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 דפים
...them little more. At the zenith of 'Hellenomania', in 1821, Shelley wrote in the Preface to Helios: We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greeee — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
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