"Greco-Roman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... develop than the national epopee was that which formed the cycle of antiquity. Their romantic matter made the works of the Greco-Roman decadence even more attractive than the writings of the great classical authors to poets who would enter into rivalry with the singers of the chansons de geste. These poems, which mediaevalise ancient literature—poems often of portentous length—have been classified in three ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... the State would exclude from the Public Schools! thereby denying alike the lessons of history and its Christian duty. These United States, or no existing nation (relatively to the age), has never attained the point of artistic, aesthetic, social or material perfection of the Greco-Roman States; yet they fell, as I have just said, to slavery and ruin, not so much from the blows of the barbarians, as from the dissolving influence of a material civilization, resulting inevitably in public and private impotence ...
— Public School Education • Michael Mueller |
