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They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action....

The History of Greece from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1833 - Page 276
by William Hendry Stowell - 1848 - 382 pages
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Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, Issue 40

1965 - 556 pages

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A Handbook of Private Schools for American Boys and Girls, Volume 30

1947 - 1084 pages

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Daedalus: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 105

1976 - 908 pages

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An Introduction to the Symbolic Literature of the Renaissance

790 pages

...one thousand years of the Eastern Roman Empire, produced not one original work of literature or art. "In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or enhance the happiness of mankind." 3 The great contribution of the Byzantines was the preservation...

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W. B. Yeats, Images of a Poet: My Permanent Or Impermanent Images

Donald James Gordon - 1961 - 164 pages

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