 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to...we will make what portion of them we can our own, that we will ask the words which we use to give an account of themselves, to say whence they are, and... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1854 - 252 pages
...nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to...round about us so far more precious than mines of California gold, we determine that we will make what portion of them we can our own, that we will ask... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...The " Iliad " is great, yet not so great in strength, or power, or beauty, as the Greek language. " Paradise Lost " is a noble possession for a people...but the English tongue is a nobler heritage yet.* One of the most elegant writers in our language, Mrs. Barbauld, who in her husband's school superintended... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to...we will make what portion of them we can our own, that we will ask the words which we use to give an account of themselves, to say whence they are, and... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to...round about us so far more precious than mines of California gold, we determine that we will make what portion of them we can our own /that we will ask... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...treasures of wisdom and knowledge lying round about us so far more precious than mines of California gold, we determine that we will make what portion of them we can our own, that we will ask the words we use to give an account of themselves, to say whence they are, and whither... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...Iliad" is great ; yet not BO great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Last*1 is a noble possession for a people to have inherited...; but the English tongue is a nobler heritage yet. 10. Great, then, will be our gains, if, having these treasures of wisdom and knowledge lying round... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...nation. The Iliad" is great ; yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost" is a noble possession for a people to have inherited ; but the English tongue ia a nobler heritage yet. 10. Great, then, will be our gains, if, having these treasures of wisdom... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1859 - 252 pages
...nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to...treasures of wisdom and knowledge lying round about us BO far more precious than mines of California gold, we determine that we will make what portion of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1859 - 296 pages
...nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to...inherited, but the English tongue is a nobler heritage yet. And short as we may, and indeed must, stop of apprehending all this, there is an obscure sense, or... | |
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... and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it. For that work, great as it may be, is but the embodying of the mind of a single man, this of a nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength... 
