Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1885 - 452 pages |
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Page 13 - Roman religion was a formal, habitual recognition, had become in him a powerful current of feeling and observance. The old-fashioned, partly puritanic awe, the power of which Wordsworth noted and valued so highly in a northern peasantry, had its counterpart in the feeling of the Roman lad, as he passed the spot,
Page 200 - ... so much of those, thou wilt never see! It is as if thou wouldst have had those who were before thee discourse fair things concerning thee. " To him, indeed, whose wit hath been whetted by true doctrine, that well-worn sentence of Homer sufficeth, to guard him against regret and fear— Like the race of leaves The race of man is:— ^ The wind in autumn strows The earth with old leaves: then the spring the woods with new endows— Leaves!
Page 96 - ... the satisfaction of which another might have relied on the acquisition and display of brilliant military qualities. In him, a fine instinctive sentiment of the exact value and power of words was connate with the eager longing for sway over his fellows. He saw himself already a gallant and effective leader, innovating or conservative as occasion might require, in the rehabilitation of the mother-tongue, then fallen so tarnished and languid; yet the sole object, as he mused within himself, of the...
Page 33 - Etruria, as was then usual in such cases, for the cure of some boyish sickness. The religion of Aesculapius, though borrowed from Greece, had been naturalised in Rome in the old republican times; but had reached under the Antonines the height of its popularity throughout the Roman world. That was an age of valetudinarians, in many instances of imaginary ones; but below its various crazes concerning health and disease, largely multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries...
Page 115 - The peculiar resultant note, associating itself with certain other experiences of his, was to Marius like the foretaste of an entirely novel world of poetic beauty to come. Flavian had caught, indeed, something of the rhyming cadence, the sonorous organ-music of the medieval Latin, and therewithal something of its unction and mysticity of spirit. There was in his work, along with the last splendour of the classical language, a touch, almost prophetic, of that transformed life it was to have in the...
Page 143 - ... the real business of education — insight, insight through culture, into all that the present moment holds in trust for us, as we stand so briefly in its presence.
Page 74 - And Psyche was glad at the tidings, rejoicing in that solace of a divine seed, and in the glory of that pledge of love to be, and the dignity of the name of mother. Anxiously she notes the increase of the days, the waning months.
Page 166 - His elaborate philosophy had not put beneath his feet the terror of mere bodily evil : much less of " inexorable fate, and the noise of greedy Acheron." The resting-place to which he presently came, in the keen, wholesome air of the market-place of the little hill-town, was a pleasant contrast to that last effort of his journey. The room in which he sat down to supper, unlike the ordinary Roman inns at that day, was trim and sweet. The...
Page 50 - ... of which his notion of the world was then forming. And while he learned that the object, the experience, as it will be known to memory, is really from first to last the chief point for consideration in the conduct of life, these things were feeding also the idealism constitutional with him — his innate and habitual longing for a world altogether fairer than that he saw. The child could find his way in thought along those streets of the old town, expecting duly the shrines at their corners,...
Page 238 - Yes ! what was wanting was the heart that would make it impossible to witness all this ; and the future would be with the forces that could beget a heart like that.