Patriotic Poetry, Greek and English: An Essay Given on the 500th Anniversary of Agincourt |
Other editions - View all
Patriotic Poetry, Greek and English: An Address Given on the 500th ... William Rhys Roberts No preview available - 2017 |
Patriotic Poetry, Greek and English: An Address Given on the 500th ... William Rhys Roberts No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
Achilles Aeschylus Agincourt ancient ancient Greece Aristophanes Athenian Athens Bacchylides battle battle of Agincourt Bergk BOEOTIA brave British Classical Eleutherios Venizelos England English patriotic Ennius Euripides father fatherland fight Fluellen France freedom German Glaucus goddess Greece Greek poets heart Hector Henry the Fifth hero Herodotus Hesiod Homer honour human ideal Iliad King Henry land languages Latin Leeds liberty lines literature live Lucian modern native Niue Odyssey passage patria patriotic poetry peace Persians play Plutarch Plutus poems prose Roman Salamis Sarpedon Shakespeare Sophocles Spartan spirit things Thucydides to-day Trojan Troy true Tyrtaeus University Venizelos verse Wales Welsh Welshman women words Wordsworth young ἀλλὰ ἂν γὰρ γυναῖκας δὲ εἶναι εἰρήνης ἐλευθεροῦτε Ἑλλήνων ἐν καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ πάντων πατρὶς πόλεμος τὰ τε τὴν τὸ τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὑπὲρ ὦ παῖδες ὡς ὥσπερ
Popular passages
Page 21 - God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with fear ; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them ! — Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown...
Page 79 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 21 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour-d rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height!
Page 40 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 54 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Page 38 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 115 - Malum; nisi hoc peius est, haec sufferre et perpeti. 4 Quae res mihi non mediocrem consolationem attulit, volo tibi commemorare, si forte eadem res tibi dolorem minuere possit. Ex Asia rediens cum ab Aegina Megaram versus navigarem, coepi regiones circumcirca prospicere. Post me erat Aegina, ante me Megara, dextra Piraeus, sinistra Corinthus, quae oppida quodam tempore florentissima fuerunt, nunc prostrata et diruta ante oculos iacent. Coepi egomet mecum sic cogitare : ' Hem ! nos homunculi indignamur,...
Page 54 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Page 130 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 117 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.