...worthy of the eloquent. If we cannot say of the Maori tongue as Gibbon said of Greek, that it " can give a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy," we can at any rate claim for it that it is a musical and vigorous speech. Full of vowelsounds,...

...key that could unlock the treasury of antiquity — of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The Schools of Byzantium, having inherited the unbroken tradition of Ancient Greece, continued...

..."golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity, of a musical and prolific Ianguage tnat gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." He has undoubtedly found in this harmonious instrument of thought a spirit akin to his...

...subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a musical and prolific language that gives a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." And Mrs. Browning has said many beautiful things of the " language that lived so long...

...is noblest and most precious in the humanities, of ' that musical and prolific language which gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy,' of those literatures, which, in addition to their inestimable, intrinsic value, are, historically...

...golden key that could unlock the treasury of antiquity — of a musical and prolific language that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.' * Their pupils, therefore, transmitted to their followers the pronunciation they had received...

...weight that has baen laid upon it. Sanskrit, like its cognate Greek, may be characterised as a speech "capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a bixly to the abstractions of metaphysics." But, as the Tibetan language can have no pretensions to...

...golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.' Cowper, preface to the ist edn. of his translation of the Iliad: 'Our language is indeed...

...translations from the Sanskrit. He wrote: 'Sanskrit, like its cognate Greek, may be characterised as a speech "capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics."'40 He goes so far as to criticize Sir William Jones himself for suggesting that Pali...

...golden key that would unlock the treasures of antiquity of a musical and prolific language that gives a soul to the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." "He has erected between Euripides and the reader a barrier more impassable than the Greek...