...an idealized hellenism, not a rejuvenated Hinduism. In the Preface to Hellas the poet proclaimed, ' We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece',13 and it is evident here and elsewhere that the Hellenistic ideal (standing in Shelley's,...

...however, spoke of them in very different terms. "We are all Greeks," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in 181z; "our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece." There is some exaggeration here, especially in the matter of the Christian religion, which has deeper...

...however, spoke of them in very different terms. "We are all Greeks," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821; "our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece." There is some exaggeration here, especially in the matter of the Christian religion, which has deeper...

...the zeal of a dedicated idealist. Shelley was one of the earliest intellectuals to exclaim: We arc 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...

...joined in the encounter between the "isms" of the Buddha and Hellas. The Origin of the Buddha Image 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,...

...from Oxford for writing and circulating a pamphlet entitled "The Necessity of Atheism," wrote in 1822, "We are all Greeks, our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece."11 Shelley, one of the greatest of the Romantic poets, was not exactly an expert in religion,...

...understanding of the example of Greece. For "we are all Greeks," Shelley tells us in his Preface to "Hellas," "our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece."124 "What we are and hope to be," he says elsewhere, "is derived, as it were, from the influence...

...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 roots in Greece. But lor Greece Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have...

...the leaders of the revolt, whom he got to know well at Leghorn. In the Preface to Hellas he repeats: "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece." But for Greece, Rome would have "spread no illumination with her arms." In another...

...of Pialo and the Greek poets and dramatists. In the preface to his play Hellas (1822) he declared: We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece . . . The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in Greece which has impressed its...