 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1924 - 506 pages
...man's life in a chorus in the Antigone. ' Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man . . . speech and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that mould a state, hath he taught himself (Jebb). There is no thought here of admitting that this world is the worst possible ; it is rather... | |
 | 1873 - 718 pages
...the might of the gods by measuring against it those human faculties which it alone can overcome : — "Wonders are many, but nothing is more wonderful than...; unprovided he meets nothing that must come. Only i Thucyd. ii. 37. from death shall he not win deliverance; yet from hard sicknesses hath he devised... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...might of the gods by measuring against it those human faculties which it alone can overcome : — " Wonders are many, but nothing is more wonderful than...hath he taught himself; and how to flee the shafts of frosts beneath the clear, unsheltering sky, and the arrows of the stormy rain. "All-providing is he;... | |
 | sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1885 - 456 pages
...тгараа-тгас ¿тг1 \coßa' crv ка1 то Se veî/соч àvSpav VIKÔ, S' èvapyrjs ß , And speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods...state hath he taught himself; and how to flee the arrows of the frost beneath the clear, unsheltering sky, and the arrows of the stormy rain. All-providing... | |
 | Sophocles - Greek drama - 1891 - 382 pages
...('a clear frost ')xfP°~lv I tptJeroXXoi' ipiraawvt. Nauck takes 5u<jaú\av iríyav as 'inhos74 75 thought, and all the moods that mould a state, hath he taught himself; and how to flee the arrows of the frost, when 'tis hard lodging under the clear sky, and the arrows of the rushing rain... | |
 | E. E. G. - Greece - 1903 - 752 pages
...had come into existence (Kleine Sehrift, xi. 8). ments of man that he has taught himself, developed " speech and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that mould a State " ; and in this idea the poet is followed by the philosopher, Aristotle (Pol., I. ii., § 12). What... | |
 | William Croswell Doane - Easter - 1910 - 304 pages
...tames the horse of shaggy mane, he puts the yoke upon its neck, he tames the tireless mountain bull. And speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods...state, hath he taught himself; and how to flee the arrows of the frost, when 'tis hard lodging under the clear sky and the arrows of the rushing rain... | |
 | William Croswell Doane - Easter - 1910 - 304 pages
...tames the horse of shaggy mane, he puts the yoke upon its neck, he tames the tireless mountain bull) And speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that mould a state,^hath he taught himself; and how to flee ' the arrows of the frosty when 'tis hard lodging under... | |
 | Cecil Fairfield Lavell - Ethics - 1911 - 116 pages
...ocean brood he snares in the meshes of his woven wiles, he leads captive, man excellent in wit .... And speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods...unsheltering sky, and the arrows of the stormy rain. All providing is he : unprovided he meets nothing that must come." 7 And this joy in man's power is... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1912 - 410 pages
...endowments of man, the most amazing, Virgil would agree with Sophocles, and the most godlike are " speech and wind-swift thought and all the moods that mould a state " icOI tfiQeyfia iecu aveftotv <ppovilfIia irai arrvvoisLovs d/oya'y-3 Thus history, and particularly... | |
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