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Henry Hart Milman
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“Ride on, ride on, in majesty! In lowly pomp ride on to die.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) first seen 1827 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hymn Ride on, Ride on in Majesty (1827)
“Thou our throbbing flesh hast worn; Thou our mortal griefs hast borne; Thou hast shed the human tear; Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 94
“Death cannot come To him untimely who is fit to die; The less of this cold world, the more of heaven; The briefer life, the earlier immortality.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 180
“And the cold marble leapt to life a god.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Belvedere Apollo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Belvedere Apollo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But where were the Roman people? where was that stern, and frugal, and strongly national plebeian race, which so long maintained the Roman character for order, virtue, freedom; and which, if factious and unruly, was factious for noble ends, and unruly in defence or assertion of its rights?”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wonderful energies which were developed in the universal conquests of Rome, and in her civil factions, in which the great end of ambition was to be the first citizen in a state which ruled the world, could not but awaken intellectual powers of the highest order. The force and vigour of the Roman character is manifest in the fragments of their early poetry.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hence, in the genuine epic, in lyric, in dramatic poetry, the Greeks stood alone and unapproachable. Each of these successive forms of the art had, as it were, spontaneously adapted itself to the changes in Grecian society. The epic was that of the heroic age of the warrior-kings and bards; the lyric, the religious, that of the temple and of the public games; the dramatic, that of the republican polity, the exquisite combination of the arts of poetry, music, gesture, and spectacle, before which the sovereign people of Athens met, which was presided over by the magistrate, and maintained either at the public cost, or at that of the ruling functionary—which, in short, was the great festival of the city.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Still, however, in those less poetic departments of poetry, if we may so speak, which the Greeks had cultivated only in the later and less creative periods of their literature, the Romans seized the unoccupied ground, and asserted a distinct superiority. Wherever poetry would not disdain to become an art—wherever lofty sentiment, majestic, if elaborate, verse, unrivalled vigour in condensing and expressing moral truth, dignity, strength, solidity, as it were, of thought and language, not without wonderful richness and variety, could compensate for the chastened fertility of invention, the life and distinctness of conception, and the pure and translucent language, in which the Greek stands alone—there the Latin surpasses all poetry. In what is commonly called didactic poetry, whether it would convey in verse philosophical opinions, the principles of art, descriptions of scenery, or observations on life and manners, the Latin poets are of unrivalled excellence.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source