But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based 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 Their seal is set. Essays and Studies - Side 85av English Association - 1913Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1924 - 296 sider
...Golden Age of Greece in the future. Thought, or Greece, a synonym of Thought, abides forever : But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide...on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity. The fragment The Triumph of Life (1822), the last of Shelley's compositions, is interesting as showing... | |
| John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1924 - 472 sider
...bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away. The sea becomes a symbol of thought. So Greece is Built "below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity. The next example is as delicate and fair though in using the moon as a ship on the sea of the sky,... | |
| Joseph Alexander Leighton - 1926 - 612 sider
...fears, being himself alive. POLITICAL GREATNESS He apostrophizes Greece, where Liberty first appeared 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 Their... | |
| Lucien Price - 1928 - 368 sider
...through my own head keeps ringing that strophe from one of the choric odes of Shelley's Hellas: — But 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... | |
| 1892 - 880 sider
...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,... | |
| 1886 - 372 sider
...We ga'/e on danger through the mist of fear. Oh, slavery, thou frost of the world's prime ! t¡reece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the chrystalino sea Of thought and its eternity. Thought Alone, and its quick elements, will, passion,... | |
| David Spooner - 1995 - 124 sider
...ideological wrestling to release the ancient cultural forces overlaid by the national superstructures: But 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 Their... | |
| David S. Ferris - 2000 - 276 sider
...Citadels and marts and they Who live and die there, have been ours And may be thine, and must decay, But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war Based on the chrystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from... | |
| Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass - 2006 - 286 sider
...night. In contrast, Hellas is of a wholly different make; it embodies the eternal concept of Liberty: " [built] below the tide of war, / Based on the crystalline sea / Of thought and its eternity" (ll. 697-99). Shelley envisions Hellas as a portion of eternity, not subject to the flux of the temporal,... | |
| Timothy Morton - 2006 - 188 sider
...free men and women - in this work, specifically the ideals created by ancient Greece - remain: But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the chrystalline sea Of thought and its eternity. (696-9) The mistake humanity always makes is to assume... | |
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