 The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to...  The National Quarterly Review - Sivu 125muokkaaja - 1860Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 sivua
...golden urns, draw light ; ' Or we may affirm of him what Doctor Johnson has well observed of Homer, ' That nation after nation, and century after century,...transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrast"Jm sentiments.' " And now to glance at the Decameron itself. What adventures! what descriptions!... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 sivua
...works. THE REVERENCE PAID TO ANCIENT WRITERS, ETC. 331 "hers was at once discovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new-name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 sivua
...works. THE REVERENCE PAID TO ANCIENT WRITERS, ETC. 331 bers was at once discovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new-name hia characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 sivua
...been referred to time. The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new-name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 sivua
...been referred to time. The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new-name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 sivua
...referred to time. The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poams of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more th.m transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 sivua
...Pythagorean scale of numbers was at onre disco ere J to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we Tel ave as a cover'd goblet, or a worm-eaten nut. Rut....when he is in , but, I think he is not in. Ros. You h has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | 1888 - 576 sivua
...have been referred to time. The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | Thomas M'Caleb - 1894 - 634 sivua
...department, in solitary grandeur, unrivalled and unapproachable. " The poems of Homer," says Dr. Johnson, " we yet know not to transcend the common limits of...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 sivua
...been referred to time. The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the...that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrase... | |
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