 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
 | Beert C. Verstraete - 2005 - 518 דפים
...expressed in many of his poems, most notably Hellas. The preface to Hellas contains the familiar passage: 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... | |
 | David Mayers - 2007 - 10 דפים
...the 1820s. At stake was the vindication of western civilization. Percy Bysshe Shelley taught in 1821: "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece . . . The modern Greek is the descendant of those glorious beings whom the imagination almost refuses... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick M. Newton, Evangeline Newton - 2008 - 211 דפים
...love of things Greek." British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote in his Preface to Hellas, "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece." This is an amazing statement by an Englishman who found his intellectual identity in the study of Greece.... | |
 | Argyro Loukaki - 2008 - 392 דפים
...assumptions about Greek heritage's importance will become clear later. Westerners, Ancient and Modern Greece 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 and we might still... | |
 | 1954 - 398 דפים
...spiritual progress, it is also a kind of extended paraphrase and addendum to Shelley's sentimental verdict: "We are all Greeks; our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece." For upon the basic ideals of Greece in their Adienian form — freedom, optimism, secularism, rationalism,... | |
 | 1904 - 586 דפים
...not Greek in its origin, was, in a way, anticipated by Shelley (Preface to "Hellas") when he wrote: "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,... | |
 | Shelley Society - 1886 - 154 דפים
...their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shews of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Koine, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 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... | |
 | John T. Kirby - 2000 - 200 דפים
...The shift has been rather quick. "We are all Greeks," wrote Shelley in his 1822 preface to Hellas; "Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece." By 1920, TS Eliot could write: The Classics have, during the latter part of the nineteenth century... | |
 | 1924 - 856 דפים
...Nation. THE PAGEANT OF GREECE Edited by R. \V. LIVINGSTONE With 12 illustrations Net $2.75 "We arc 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... | |
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