...inheritance, of the country of Homer, Sophocles, and Plato : — " ' But Greece and her f oundationa are Built below the tide of war ; Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity.' " And again, that philosophical truth, felicitously imaged forth : — " ' Revenge and wrong bring...

...invocation to the same cradle of our culture, when he sings : — " Greece and her foundations are Fixed below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity." Graf writes : — "A city toward the dawn gave birth to me, Beside a mount of marble doth she stand,...

...invocation to the same cradle of our culture, when he sings : — Greece and her foundations are Fixed below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity. Graf writes : — A city toward the dawn gave birth to me, Beside a mount of marble doth she stand,...

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...high social passion, of intellectual and spiritual wisdom. And so he proclaimed her immortality : — Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based ou the crystalline sea Of thought, aiid its eternity. A third of a century flies past us ; we are in...

...opinion, than that world of beauty to which Shelley adverts, when he exclaims in ' Hellas : >— But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide...on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity. Having considered this charge chiefly as affecting poetry, I must not forget that the last passage...

...(shftns) : plunderings ; laying waste. River of the ten thousand masts: Thames. MutabU'lty: change. Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide...on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity. Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past ; On all this world of men inherits...