In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body... The Quarterly review - Page 3611826Full view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various... | |
| John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pages
...argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives u soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues, is obscure.... | |
| Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...most signal success. This musical and prolific language does not only, to use the words of Gibbon, " give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the "abstractions of philosophy," but is, as the same author justly observes, " the golden key that unlocks the treasures of antiquity."... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...possessed a language that could express every sensation ; a language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, that it could...objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ?- — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds... | |
| John Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues, is obscure.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1829 - 460 pages
...to the glories of the idiom of old Hellas — " of that rich and harmonious language, whose sounds could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." Nor was the ancient Greek neglected; besides Vamba, who is esteemed a good Hellenist, there was always... | |
| 1829 - 440 pages
...reader, the effect is far from inconsiderable. It has been said of the Greek language, that it gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Grecian genius has performed the harder task, of giving substance and reality, to the airy visions... | |
| 1829 - 434 pages
...reader, the effect is far from inconsiderable. It has been said of the Greek language, that it gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Grecian genius has performed the harder task, of giving substance and reality, to the airy visions... | |
| Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 884 pages
...in the Grecian language ; — that divine language, which, as Mr Gibbon finely expresses it, " gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The literary fame which Poggio afterwards acquired, is the best proof of the proficiency which he made... | |
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