Literature of the World: An Introductory StudyGinn, 1922 - 526 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... Odyssey combined ) , signifies by its title the " Great War " and celebrates the conflict of two races or rival groups of people who sought in ancient times for possession of the valley of the Ganges . The war was fought , it is ...
... Odyssey combined ) , signifies by its title the " Great War " and celebrates the conflict of two races or rival groups of people who sought in ancient times for possession of the valley of the Ganges . The war was fought , it is ...
Pàgina 26
... Odyssey of Homer , and another to the Hebrew book of Esther ; while the pictures of Bagdad in the great epoch of Haroun al - Rashid remind us constantly of the Arabian Moslem capital in its heyday . Burton expresses it as his conviction ...
... Odyssey of Homer , and another to the Hebrew book of Esther ; while the pictures of Bagdad in the great epoch of Haroun al - Rashid remind us constantly of the Arabian Moslem capital in its heyday . Burton expresses it as his conviction ...
Pàgina 60
... the next . Probably this type of poetry was very common by 900 B.C. The greatest of all epic poems , the Iliad and the Odyssey , drew хотели quation : upon the subject matter of earlier poems and in turn 60 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD.
... the next . Probably this type of poetry was very common by 900 B.C. The greatest of all epic poems , the Iliad and the Odyssey , drew хотели quation : upon the subject matter of earlier poems and in turn 60 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD.
Pàgina 62
... Odyssey . Modern literary criticism has been much con- cerned for a century or more with the Homeric question . Fascinat- ing as the subject is , we cannot enter into it in this place . The identity of Homer cannot be determined . While ...
... Odyssey . Modern literary criticism has been much con- cerned for a century or more with the Homeric question . Fascinat- ing as the subject is , we cannot enter into it in this place . The identity of Homer cannot be determined . While ...
Pàgina 63
... Odyssey , while by way of contrast a view is given of a house in disorder - Penelope struggling with un- toward conditions . There seems to have been free social intercourse between the sexes ; monogamy was universal . The picture ...
... Odyssey , while by way of contrast a view is given of a house in disorder - Penelope struggling with un- toward conditions . There seems to have been free social intercourse between the sexes ; monogamy was universal . The picture ...
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Literature of the World: An Introductory Study William Lee Richardson,Jesse M. Owen Visualització completa - 1922 |
Literature of the World: An Introductory Study William Lee Richardson,Jesse Myron Owen Visualització completa - 1922 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 51 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Pàgina 367 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Pàgina 48 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Pàgina 43 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Pàgina 54 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Pàgina 126 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Pàgina 410 - Alas! that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me! Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene The actors or spectators?
Pàgina 47 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and...
Pàgina 43 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, Which sing among the branches.
Pàgina 54 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD...