classicism and antiquity quotes

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For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
To appreciate present conditions
collate them with those of antiquity.
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grand ...
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.
Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have ca ...
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
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