 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 páginas
...invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers and the breath of better times, which from the traditions of more ancient nations came at...length into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks. But if any one shall, notwithstanding this, contend that allegories are always adventitious or imposed... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 356 páginas
...relics, as he terms them, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the tradition of more ancient nations came at length into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks. He concludes, that the knowledge- of the early ages was either great or happy : great, if they by design... | |
 | 1842 - 420 páginas
...of embellishment, which is their own. And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive, not as the product of the age or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the traditions of more ancient... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 páginas
...relics, or, as he terms them, "gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the tradition of more ancient nations, came at length into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks." N, the fourteenth letter and eleventh consonant of the English alphabet, is an imperfect mute or semi-vowel,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 páginas
...revelation, for he observes farther on, "And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times ; that from the traditions of more ancient... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...of embellishment, which is their own. And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the traditions of more ancient... | |
 | 1864 - 454 páginas
...always fascinating. Lord Bacon, in his quaint way, says of them, in genera! : — " I receive them, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets (Homer, Hesiod and others), but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times,... | |
 | 1864 - 408 páginas
...always fascinating. Lord. Bdcon, in his quaint way, says of them, in genera! : — " I receive them, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets (Homer, Hesiod and others), but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times,... | |
 | 1873 - 716 páginas
...receive not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers and the breath of better times, that, from the traditions...length into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks." 3 Herodotus is very explicit in regard to the origin of Greek divinities : " Almost all the names of... | |
 | 1873 - 714 páginas
...of embellishment, which is their own. And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers and the breath of better times, that, from the traditions of more ancient... | |
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And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the traditions of more ancient nations came,... 
