 More than a magnificent poem, more than the beginning of a language and the opening of a national literature, more than the inspirer of art and the glory of a great people, it is one of those rare and solemn monuments of the mind's power which measure...  On the Wing - Page 250by Samuel Augustus Steel - 1896 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...mind's power, which measure and test what it can reach to, which rise up ineffaceably and for ever as time goes on, marking out its advance by grander...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspere's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 556 pages
...power, which measure and test what it can reach to, which rise up ineffaceably and for ever as tune goes on, marking out its advance by grander divisions...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspere's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1854 - 316 pages
...mind's power, which measure and test what it can reach to, which rise up ineffaceably and for ever as time goes on, marking out its advance by grander...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspere's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1854 - 594 pages
...mind's power, which measure and test what it can reach to, which rise up ineffaceably and for ever as time goes on, marking out its advance by grander...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspere's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
 | Literature - 1878 - 638 pages
...one of those rare and solemn monuments of the mind's power, which rise up ineffaceably, and for ever, as time goes on, marking out its advance by grander...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakespeare's pla\s, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
 | Richard William Church - Church and state - 1878 - 368 pages
...whole work was dropped for want of the appreciation which the first instalment ou ht to have had. B marking out its advance by grander divisions than...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspere's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1878 - 360 pages
...whole work was dropped for want of -the appreciation which the first instalment ou ht to have had. B marking out its advance by grander divisions than...adopted as epochs by the consent of, all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspere's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons - 1885 - 390 pages
...rare and solemn monuments of the mind's power which measure and test what it can reach to ; which rise up, ineffaceably and forever, as time goes on, marking...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. They who know it best would wish others also to know the power of that wonderful poem ; its austere... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons - 1886 - 392 pages
...rare and solemn monuments of the mind's power which measure and test what it can reach to ; which rise up, ineffaceably and forever, as time goes on, marking...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. They who know it best would wish others also to know the power of that wonderful poem ; its austere... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 598 pages
...the mind's power which measure and test what it can reach to, which rise up ineffaceably and for ever as time goes on, marking out its advance by grander...adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspeare's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the... | |
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