We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still... Hellas: A Lyrical Dramaby Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1822 - 60 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...is something perfectly inexplicable lo a mere spectator of the sliows of Ibis morlal scene. We arc c`cacbc IB Greece. Bui for Greece— Rome the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...something perfeetly inexplieable to a mere speetator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Grecks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts,...their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome the instruetor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...their ruin, is something perfeetly inexplieable to a mere speetator of the shows of this mortal seene. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greeee. But for Greeee — Rome the instruetor, the eonqueror, or the metropolis of our aneestors,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...from the ashes of their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws,...religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece—Rome the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have spread... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...from the ashes of their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws,...their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome the instructer, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...from the ashes of their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws,...Greece. But for Greece — Rome the instructor, the eonqneror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 834 pages
...from the ashes of their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws,...religion, our arts. have their root in Greece. But for Greece—Rome the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have spread... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 854 pages
...from the ashes of their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws,...our religion, our arts. have their root in Greece. Bnt for Greece — Rome the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...were from the ashes of their ruin is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. We are all Greeks. Our laws,...literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Gteece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or tl,e metropolis, of our ancestors,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1877 - 514 pages
...astonishing circumstance of the descendants of that nation to which they owe their civilization—rising as it were from the ashes of their ruin, is something...religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece—Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have spread... | |
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