 | Oliver Elton - 1901 - 25 pages
...seriously, give him. What if he, the widest-known retailer of ideas in English verse, was all the while in a backwater where only the fainter wash of the larger currents reached him ? And what, then, are those currents of thought, I do not say as abstractly shown in pure... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1907 - 380 pages
...seriously, give him. What if he, the widest-known retailer of ideas in English verse, was all the while in a backwater where only the fainter wash of the larger currents reached him ? And what, then, are those currents of thought, I do not say as abstractly shown in pure... | |
 | 1916 - 570 pages
...which reached its climax in the sixth and following centuries, "the golden age of Irish civilization." The charge that is so often levelled against Irish...wash of the larger currents reaches, cannot apply to the period just mentioned. For once, at any rate, Ireland drew upon herself the eyes of the whole world,... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Ireland - 1921 - 762 pages
...the heiress to the classical and theological learning of the western empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, and a period of humanism was thus ushered...which reached its culmination during the sixth and the following centuries. For once, at any rate, Ireland drew upon herself the eyes of the world, as... | |
 | Benedict Fitzpatrick - Civilization, Irish - 1921 - 400 pages
...been widely removed from the main stream of European life and that her fate had been to move around in a backwater where only the fainter wash of the larger currents reached, neither giving nor receiving much from Europe. Her position in the extreme West has nurtured... | |
 | Benedict Fitzpatrick - Great Britain - 1921 - 394 pages
...been widely removed from the main stream of European life and that her fate had been to move around in a backwater where only the fainter wash of the larger currents reached, neither giving nor receiving much from Europe. Her position in the extreme West has nurtured... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 737 pages
...the heiress to the classical and theological learning of the western empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, and a, period of humanism was thus ushered...which reached its culmination during the sixth and the following centuries. For once, at any rate, Ireland drew upon herself the eyes of the worids as... | |
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... as the one haven of rest in a turbulent world overrun by hordes of barbarians, as the great seminary of Christian and classical learning, ' the quiet habitation of sanctity and literature... 