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Page 53
... feeling . Yet I do not see how anyone can read Thucydides with sympathy without being convinced of his passionate love for Athens . There are no " droppings of warm tears " ; he seldom uses an expression like the one in describ- ing the ...
... feeling . Yet I do not see how anyone can read Thucydides with sympathy without being convinced of his passionate love for Athens . There are no " droppings of warm tears " ; he seldom uses an expression like the one in describ- ing the ...
Page 68
... feels in words which have no such suggestion for the personages . Our modern irony of fate and nature , in Hardy's novels for ex- ample , is a similar feeling transferred from a particu- lar plot to all life and existence by the author ...
... feels in words which have no such suggestion for the personages . Our modern irony of fate and nature , in Hardy's novels for ex- ample , is a similar feeling transferred from a particu- lar plot to all life and existence by the author ...
Page 136
... feeling which gave rise to the doubts . Why did Punch , for example , that almost unerring interpreter of English feeling , represent Lord Beaconsfield's offer as being like that of the conjuror in Aladdin - " New lamps for old ones ...
... feeling which gave rise to the doubts . Why did Punch , for example , that almost unerring interpreter of English feeling , represent Lord Beaconsfield's offer as being like that of the conjuror in Aladdin - " New lamps for old ones ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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