Full Text Search Details
...t the role of my commentary is as the role of any ladder: if you have an attic filled with goodly matters, you need only a ladder to climb it, and ... ...hey are not actually writing about those higher worlds, but about how the writers perceived those worlds while being in the worlds BYA. And because ... ...awn The darkest time of night is right before the dawn. Similar- - ly, the writers of The Book of Zohar said, almost 2,000 years ago, that humanity’s... ...ish. In the near future, broadcasts will also be translated into French, greek, Polish, and Portuguese. As with everything else, the live broadcast...

Full Text Search Details
...ooks among us relating to the essence of Judaism, as there were almost no writers who could not stand behind their words, for the simple reason that... ... God demands. But ever since the printing of books has become popular, and writers are no longer in need of scribes, the price of books has been redu... ...price of books has been reduced. This has paved the way for irresponsible writers to publish whatever books they please, for money or for glory. But... ...hat they have stolen the upper shell of their wisdom, which Plato and his Greek predecessors had acquired while studying with the disciples of the p... ...the purpose of my commentary is as the role of any ladder: if you have an attic filled abundantly, then all you need is a ladder to reach it. And th... ...tself, for if you pause on the rungs of the ladder and will not enter the attic, your goal will not be achieved. And so it is with my commentary on ...

Description Details
...istorical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

Full Text Search Details
...e private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. E... ...ction of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, an... ...e most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Fo... ...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ...r day. So, I was haunted. Could I become man’s benefactor? Lying in my attic, on my bed of corn shocks, I confronted log walls—- strong log walls... ...led me to travel by camelback, through Egypt and Assyria. At night, in my attic, I imagined the sacred taberna- cle, the pyramids. I repeated some of...

Full Text Search Details
...antism, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic (Papist, Ultramontane), Re- formed, Greek Orthodox, Methodism, Anabaptist, Seventh- Day Adventists, the Esta... ... McKinley, president of the United States; B. L. Gildersleeve, professor of Greek (see 42); Ferdinand W. Peck, commis- sioner-general to the Paris E... ... meaning otherwise would be ambiguous: the Fathers, the early Fathers, the Greek Fathers, [Pilgrim Fathers], the Reformers (but: the church reforme... ...ury Europe-he must not look outside of manuscript tra- dition." NOTE.-Some writers regard this hyphen as an objectionable Teutonism. 195. A hyphen... ...e punctuation marks: . . . . the niceties of style which were then invading Attic prose,' and which made . . . . a In particular the avoidance of h... ...by running a line across the page, or by using ink of different color. Some writers make a perpendicular fold in the paper, using two-thirds of the... ...d logic included, there is abundant room for differences of opinion. Grant writers the privilege of preferring theirs to yours. Make a study of th...

Full Text Search Details
...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ...oys and material objects… which they never use or want or see. Stuffed into attics and basements and closets and corners and chests… to be ignore...

Full Text Search Details
...d iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the ... ...It is important to note, though, that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers I have quoted were not against intellectual property. All of them... ... is not against using a lengthened copyright term to give an extra reward to writers, even if this would dramatically raise the price of books. What h... ... the government and the media. Here is a sample: Five days in this motherf__ attic Can’t use the cellphone I keep getting static Dying ’cause they lyi... ...ructed.” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective o...

Excerpt Details
...on: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C., while the year of his death is equally uncertain. In fact, we have very little informat...

Full Text Search Details
...By Apollonius Rhodius (fl. 3rd Century B.C.) Originally written in Ancient Greek sometime in the 3rd Century B.C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius R... ...By Apollonius Rhodius (fl. 3rd Century B.C.) Originally written in Ancient Greek sometime in the 3rd Century B.C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius ... ...d the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is... ... Theocritus, who was a little his senior, but he was much admired by Roman writers who derived inspiration from the great classical writers of Greece ... ... in their folly they had slain their brother Phoeus. T elamon dwelt in the Attic island; but Peleus departed and made his home in Phthia. (ll. 95 104)...

Full Text Search Details
...ted more to the intellectual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise... ...s as the enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we ... ...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... Mr. Mackenzie has given three brief but elaborate papers on the different writers on the subject, which deserve to be consulted. See Notes and Querie... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...reducing the Homeric language to its primitive form; however, finally, the Attic dialect may not have assumed all its more marked and distinguishing c... ...e Asiatic Greeks for that purpose, that this poem was another offspring of Attic ingenuity; and gener- ally that the familiar mention of the cock (v. ... ...elves with a more spreading and sonorous fluency. With this he mingled the Attic con- tractions, the broader Doric, and the feebler Æolic, which often...

Full Text Search Details
...eans could have been discovered by the learned for putting a stop to him. [Greek Text: Aperantologia] was his forte; upon this he piqued himself, and ... ..., my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text: Cap Omega, Cap Phi] SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE THE FIRST THE... ...at well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch’tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq... ...ake these unpleasant concessions; viz., 1st, that in Athens and throughout Attica, where, by special preference, one would wish to see the Grecian cas... ...ng to Gothic buildings—decay is there seen in a grace- ful form; but to an Attic building decay is more expressive of disease—it is scrofula; it is ph... ...as obstinate as any modern prejudice against a London alderman was the old Attic prejudice against the natives of Boeotia. Originally it had grown up ...

Full Text Search Details
...ther’s side, ascends as high as to Erechtheus and the first inhabitants of Attica. By his mother’s side he was descended of Pelops. For Pelops was the... ...hile they did it, with a kick to send them down the rock into the sea. The writers of 11 Plutarch’s Lives Megara, however, in contradiction to the re... ...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ... occasion. Androgeus having been treacherously murdered in the confines of Attica, not only Minos, his fa- ther, put the Athenians to extreme distress... ...every nine years a tribute of seven young men and as many virgins, as most writers agree in stating; and the most poeti- cal story adds, that the Mino... ...tom of giving a palm to the victors. When they were come near the coast of Attica, so great was the joy for the happy success of their voyage, that ne... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...nstituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero’s appoint- ment, celebrated the Olympian games to the ... ...ates, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Some writers, to take away this accusation of one of the great- est crimes laid ...

Full Text Search Details
... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...y for the Encour- agement of Murder; but, according to their own delicate [Greek: euphaemismos], it is styled—The Society of Con- noisseurs in Murder.... ...of tea and toast, we were all imbibing a dissertation on Plotinus from the attic lips of S.T.C. Suddenly a cry arose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of... ...ose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of us, master and disciples, Plato and [Greek: hoi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire... ... Fifth Book, I think it is, of his Metaphysics) de- scribes what he calls [Greek: kleptaen teleion], i.e., a perfect thief; and, as to Mr. Howship, in... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ... ...factorily, that the roof of the coach, which some had affected to call the attics, and some the garrets, was really the drawing- room, and the box was...

Full Text Search Details
...age, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more lasting than brass—a [Greek: chtaema es aei]—a murder such in quality as any murder that he would... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ...ed as if built in brick; whereas, had it been so happy as to be written in Greek, then it would have been a palace built in Parian marble. Indeed! tha... ...on, though quite content with it in English, still could have wished it in Greek. That’s No. 2. Bentley, though admiring the blind old poet in the hig... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... (as already indicated) of the Grecian drama. The sweeping movement of the Attic tragedy ought not to admit of interruption from distinct human featur... ...ble: but, on so vast a scale as the mighty cartoons of the Greek stage, an Attic artist as little regarded the details of physiognomy, as a great arch... ... may object, is an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en T... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r...

Full Text Search Details
...te were moved with pity, and granted a pardon. The same story is told of a Greek lady, called Euphrasia, who thus nourished her father; and in Scotlan... ...d, that even the heathens saw and knew the glory of self-devotion; and the Greeks had two early instances so very beautiful that, though they cannot i... ...hem from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwelling on ... ...Oedipus?’ Potter. The place to which they had come was in Attica, hear the city of Colonus. It was a lovely grove— ‘ All the haunts o... ...tica, hear the city of Colonus. It was a lovely grove— ‘ All the haunts of Attic ground, Where the matchless cours- ers bound, Boast not, through thei... ...at King had sent his best troops to be signally defeated upon the coast of Attica; but the losses at Marathon had but stimulated the Persian lust of c... ...l deceit Punic faith, that is, Phoenician faith, and though no doubt Roman writers show them up in their worst colours, yet, after the time of Hiram, ...

Full Text Search Details
...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ... ...ith a passage from Demosthenes—not presented in En- glish, but in sounding Attic Greek. Latin is a privileged dia- lect in parliament. But Greek! It w... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...rea- sons for studying Demosthenes, as the one great model and standard of Attic prose; and, studied him I had, more than any other prose writer whate... ...aside from Demosthenes to another subject, no otherwise connected with the Attic orator than, first, by the common reference of both subjects to rheto...

Full Text Search Details
...d more to the intellec tual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise... ...as the enunciator of opinions as dif ferent in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we ... ...till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subject; bu... ... as must be indispensably sup posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...p wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...nal. “At what period,” continues Grote, “these poems, or indeed any other Greek poems, first began to be written, must be matter of conjecture, thoug... ...reducing the Homeric language to its primitive form; however, finally, the Attic dialect may not have assumed all its more marked and distinguishing c... ...e Asiatic Greeks for that purpose, that this poem was another offspring of Attic ingenuity; and generally that the familiar mention of the cock (v. 19...

Full Text Search Details
...s much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a militar... ...to dismiss them speedily, and to banish - 3 - Areopagitica Milton all such Attic babblers out of Italy. But Scipio and others of the noblest senato... ...aul, who were skilful in all the learning of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all s... ...ught it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwithstan... ...s the truer opinion? Nor boots it to say for these, and all the heathen writers of greatest infection, if it must be thought so, with whom is b... ...s yet under the press, which not seldom happens to the best and diligentest writers; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book? The printer dares no... ...g in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ablest judgment have been persuaded that ...

Full Text Search Details
...a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians. Among Greek commanders, Eumenes of Cardia may be best compared with him; they wer... ...e greatest part of the Libyan tribes under his subjection, with an army of Greeks, raised out of the colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here... .... 35 Plutarch’s Lives But when Craterus and Antipater, having subdued the Greeks, advanced into Asia, with intentions to quell the power of Perdiccas... ...ut him in mind of the great services he had done the Lacedaemonians in the Attic war, of which he thought it an ill recompense to have his country thu... ... But the great battle of all that was fought with Darius, was not, as most writers tell us, at Arbela, but at Gaugamela, which, in their language, sig... ...oked homeward, and had no design to reside among the barbarians. Thus some writers give their account of this action, while others say it was done del... ...country which would supply the public every year with two hundred thousand attic bushels of corn, and three million pounds weight of oil. He then led ... ... were then celebrated, a feast at the first institution belonging, as some writers say, to the shepherds, and having some connection with the Arcadian... ... to make war as far off from home as possible, and fight the battle out of Attica, “Good friend,” said Phocion, “let us not ask where we shall fight, ...

Full Text Search Details
...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...aughter filled every bookseller’s shop, and pen- etrated into the remotest attics. The miserable dunces, in part, were stricken mad with rage—in part,... ...EF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers of them, are generally not a little unrea... ...ld be sacrificed to its entertainment. Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations for as much fame, or pleasu... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...nd our Spenser. Tasso in his ‘Aminta’ has as far excelled all the pastoral writers, as in his ‘Gierusalemme’ he has outdone the epic poets of his coun... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ...n, and confess her home! Such was the life great Scipio once admired, Thus Atticus, and T rumbull 46 thus retired. Ye sacred Nine! that all my soul p... ...praise— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 102 ‘ A Persian tale:’ Ambrose Philips translated a book ...

Full Text Search Details
...blest virtue was her magnanimity, Her wit (she sometimes tried at wit) was Attic all, Her serious sayings darken’d to sublimity; In short, in ... ... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ...urder sleep’ in those Who gazed upon her cheek’s transcendent hue, Her Attic forehead, and her Phidian nose: Few angles were there in her form... ...e gift Of closing ‘gainst the light their orbs of vision; While gentle writers also love to lift Their voices ‘gainst each other, which is nat... ...ncreases, till you shall make common cause: None, save the Spanish fly and Attic bee, As yet are strongly stinging to be free. Don Juan, who had... ... lie. Good people all, of every degree, Ye gentle readers and ungentle writers, In this twelfth Canto ‘t is my wish to be As serious as if... ...le, filter’d through her woman. But this can’t well be true, just now; for writers Are grown of the beau monde a part potential: I ‘ve seen th...

Full Text Search Details
... a resemblance, which does not depend upon their own will, between all the writers of any particular age. They cannot escape from subjection to a comm... ...ct, I have written fear- lessly. It is the misfortune of this age that its Writers, too thoughtless of immortality, are exquisitely sensible to tem- p... ...ume. 231 Shelley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their na... ...lley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national histor... ...: Dante indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of th... ...race remains among his papers. The third was the “Prometheus Unbound”. The Greek tragedians were now his most familiar companions in his wanderings, a... ...characteristic dulness, apparently before the duties on the importation of Attic salt had been repealed by the Boeotarchs. The tenderness with which h... ... even of promises—his own coin. The freedman of a western poet-chief Holds Attica with seven thousand rebels, And has beat back the Pacha of Negropont... ...563]. A Greek who had been Lord Byron’s servant commands the insurgents in Attica. This Greek, Lord Byron informs me, though a poet and an enthusiasti...