 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 624 pages
...Mr. Gladstone himself touches upon the pleasing and engrossing nature of his task. He observes that to pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business of the world is to step out of a palace of enchantments into the cold grey light of a polar day. ' But the spells, ' he adds, ' in which this... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 620 pages
...Mr. Gladstone himself touches upon the pleasing and engrossing nature of his task. He observes that to pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business of the world is to step out of a palace of enchantments into the cold grey light of a polar day. ' But the spells, ' he adds, ' in which this... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - Great Britain - 1880 - 1224 pages
...Mr. Gladstone himself touches upon the pleasing and engrossing nature of his task. He observes that to pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business of the world is to step out of a palace of enchantments into the cold grey light of a polar day. « But the spells, ' he adds, ' in which this... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Christian biography - 1880 - 634 pages
...Mr. Gladstone himself touches upon the pleasing and engrossing nature of his task. He observes that to pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business of the world is to step out of a palace of enchants n it 'lit s into the cold grey light of a polar day. ' But the spells, ' he adds, ' in which... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1882 - 138 pages
...Mr. Gladstone himself touches upon the pleasing and engrossing nature of his task. He observes that to pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business of the world is to step out of a palace of enchantments into the cold grey light of a polar day. •But the spells,' he adds, ' in which this... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Greek poetry - 1893 - 280 pages
...which Mr. Gladstone concludes his " Studies on Homer:" — '.'To pass from the study of Homer to the business of the world is to step out of a palace of...light of a polar day. But the spells in which this enchanter deals have no affinity with that drug from Egypt which drowns the spirit in effeminate indifference... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Greek poetry - 1893 - 332 pages
...palace of enchantment into the cold, gray light of a polar day. But the spells in which this enchanter deals have no affinity with that drug from Egypt which...effeminate indifference ; rather they are like the <f>dp/j,a/cov e<rd\6v, the remedial specific, which, freshening the understanding by contact with the... | |
 | 1893 - 852 pages
...others. " To pass from the study of Homer to the business of the world," Mr Gladstone once said, " is to step out of a palace of enchantment into the cold grey light of a polar day." '7 " Plato's works," said Emerson, " contain the culture of nations ; these... | |
 | Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - University extension - 1894 - 212 pages
...battle of life. " To pass from the study of Homer to the business of the world," says Mr. Gladstone, "is to step out of a palace of enchantment into the...light of a polar day. But the spells in which this enchanter deals have no affinity with that drug from Egypt which drowns the spirit in effeminate indifference... | |
 | Joseph Parker - Clergy - 1899 - 474 pages
...heard. Mr. Gladstone does, indeed, acknowledge in the third volume and last page of his Homer that " to pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business...step out of a palace of enchantment into the cold grey light of a Polar day." No doubt of it ; yet it would be a larger and better defended palace than... | |
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To pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business of the world, is to step out of a palace of enchantment into the cold gray light of a polar day. But the spells in which this sorcerer deals have no affinity with that drug from Egypt, which drowns... 
