Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 2Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1967 |
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Page 412
... Greece the promethean fire , and till then she was almost without a literature . Then followed , in stately procession , the poets , the historians , the orators , of imperial Rome . At what period the literature of Greece first became ...
... Greece the promethean fire , and till then she was almost without a literature . Then followed , in stately procession , the poets , the historians , the orators , of imperial Rome . At what period the literature of Greece first became ...
Page 479
... Greece , from Greece to Rome , from Rome to the Saracens , from the Saracens to the Monks , and thence through the great revival of letters , the age of printing , and the Refor- mation of Luther , to the intelligence of these latter ...
... Greece , from Greece to Rome , from Rome to the Saracens , from the Saracens to the Monks , and thence through the great revival of letters , the age of printing , and the Refor- mation of Luther , to the intelligence of these latter ...
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... Greece . The Homeric songs told the people how a Grecian armament had long before sailed to Troy , then the chief city of Asia , or re- presented as such , and how , after ten long years of war- fare , it had utterly annihilated the ...
... Greece . The Homeric songs told the people how a Grecian armament had long before sailed to Troy , then the chief city of Asia , or re- presented as such , and how , after ten long years of war- fare , it had utterly annihilated the ...
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