American Journal of Philology, Volume 2Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Tenney Frank, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell Johns Hopkins University Press, 1881 - Classical philology Features articles about literary interpretation and history, textual criticism, historical investigation, epigraphy, religion, linguistics, and philosophy. Serves as a forum for international exchange among classicists and philologists. |
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Page 400 - INDIAN POETRY. Containing a New Edition of "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva ; Two Books from " The Iliad of India " (Mahabharata) ; " Proverbial Wisdom " from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.
Page 263 - ... striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 324 - Zarathustra! the man who has a wife is far above him who begets no sons; he who keeps a house is far above him who has none; he who has children is far above the childless man; he who has riches is far above him who has none.
Page 280 - I have fixed Sidney's work for the boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance.
Page 23 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 423 - ... caeli praediscere morem cura sit ac patrios cultusque habitusque locorum et quid quaeque ferat regio et quid quaeque recuset.
Page 319 - Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly, or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime twigs, the more he struggles the more belimed.
Page 489 - So cannot be used in the affirmative proposition, nor as in the negative"; Storm well adds: " Dennoch ist er, wie man sieht, sehr haufig." Worret, as well as worrit, is purely vulgar in this country, even though Trollope and George Eliot are quoted as authority for it. Lack of space must limit my remarks on the remainder of this section to the fewest possible. It is taken up with discussing Alford's Queen's English, Moon's Dean's English, and Bad English Exposed, and with a few extracts from Hyde...
Page 336 - ... aureole of a god, may of course be maintained, but only on condition that one may distinctly express what was the real work of Zoroaster. That he raised a new religion against the Vedic religion, and cast down into hell the gods of older days can no longer be maintained, since the gods, the ideas, and the worship of Mazdeism are shown to emanate directly from the old religion, and have nothing more of a reaction against it than Zend has against Sanskrit.
Page 309 - On the shutting of one eye. WHEN we would take aim, or see most exquisitely, we shut one eye. Thus must we do with the eyes of our soul. When we would look most accurately with, the eye of faith, we must shut the eye of reason : else, the...