 We find in his description of battles generally, and of this battle beyond all others, a depth and abundance of human emotion which has now passed out of military proceedings. The Greeks who fight, like the Greeks who look on, are not soldiers withdrawn...  A History of Classical Greek Literature - Page 112by John Pentland Mahaffy - 1880Full view - About this book
 | George Grote - Greece - 1850 - 618 pages
...of ancient and decisive combat. Ihe modern historian strives times — . . ., . /• •. i • i o- in vain to convey the impression of it which appears in the condensed and burning phrases of panied Thucydides. We find in his description of battles generally, and of this battle beyond all others,... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1851 - 428 pages
...victorious comrades on shipboard. Such was the close of this awful, heart-stirring, and decisive combat. The modern historian strives in vain to convey the...which appears in the condensed and burning phrases of Thucydidês. We find in his description of battles generally, and of this battle beyond all others,... | |
 | Sir John Pentland Mahaffy - 1880 - 484 pages
...the same reasons. And though we cannot but agree with much of Grote's praise—' the modern liRtorian strives in vain to convey the impression of it which appears in the condensed and burning phrases of Thucydides ' — there is real truth in the words of Mure : ' The specification. of the modes in which... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1900 - 430 pages
...victorious comrades on shipboard. Such was the close of this awful, heart-stirring, and decisive combat. The modern historian strives in vain to convey the...which appears in the condensed and burning phrases of Thucydides. We find in his description of battles generally, and of this battle beyond all others,... | |
 | John William Mackail - Classical education - 1926 - 272 pages
..." The modern historian," as Grote observes when he reaches this episode in his History of Greece, " strives in vain to convey the impression of it which appears in the condensed and burning phrases of Thucydides." " There is no prose composition in the world which I place so high ; it is the neplus... | |
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