 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Literary Criticism - 1907 - 668 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 cold grey light of a polar day. But the spells in which this enchanter deals have no affinity with that... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 760 pages
...interstitial. . . . 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... | |
 | Frank Buffington Vrooman - Democracy - 1911 - 308 pages
...Pheidias and Socrates, and Pericles. Gladstone has somewhere said, "To pass from the study of Homer to the business of the world is to step out of a palace of...enchantment into the cold gray light of a polar day." Step out of the street of Athens and across the courtyard of New York. Whom do you meet? You would... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - Athens (Greece) - 1913 - 458 pages
...celestial lights." 189 vm CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN GREECE "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;... | |
 | American essays - 1893 - 1022 pages
...Gladstone concludes his Studies on Homer : — "To pass from the study of Homer to the business of Ijhe world is to step out of a palace of enchantment into...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 - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...with 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1858 - 1018 pages
...with a sort of apology for having lingered so long among fascinating studies, — " to pass from which to the ordinary business of the world is to step out...enchantment into the cold gray light of a polar day. Nemesis must not find him," he says, — n' ff Sffrtpov aZSii Uvra." We venture to assure him, before... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Caroline Jebb - 664 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 cold grey light of a polar day. But the spells in which this enchanter deals have no affinity with that... | |
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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... 
