Word: grecian
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...fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take no false vanity in the accident...
...building is more to be noted as a guiding star for modern Greece. That country sank to the depths of degeneration under Turkish rule. Curiously, it is Turkish action in purposely strangling the purposely of Constantinople for the benefit of Angora that is turning Mediterranean commerce to Grecian cities, particularly to Athens and its point of Piraeus. Greece has the material necessities for an era of prosperity, but she is still in the clutches of technical methods which are anachronisms from the days before the Industrial Revolution. In the construction of this new library America has furnished the surrounding country...
...time when, as Eastman has so fittingly said: "All outdoors invites you"? What sunshine! What calm, delicious window, looks out at the moon rising through the trees, and muses. "In such evenings! The student stands at his a night as this Troilus sighed his love toward the Grecian tents where Cressida lay. . . . In such a night did This-be fearfully o'ertrip the dew . . . In such a night stood Dido with a willow in her hand . . . . In such a night . . . . I'd mortgage my immortal soul to be free in such a night. Yet in such a night...
...what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul was in The Eve of St. Agnes"; Hyperion she scores as "a failure"; praises the little-famed Meg Merrilies...