| William Ewart Gladstone - 1858 - 652 páginas
...colours, as the condition of its being able closely to appreciate any one among them. I conclude, then, that the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age. In lieu of this, Homer seems to have had, firstly some crude conceptions... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1863 - 132 páginas
...Mr. Gladstone, in his chapter on " Colour in Homer," (ib., p. 489,) acknowledges : "I conclude, then, that the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age." Surely this is incompatible with the love or appreciation of natural... | |
| John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 470 páginas
...another when you have it in your hand ; so VOL. IV. 2 D Homer may call mm ToAios. aiOiav, and ioeis, and be more true to nature than if he had always designated...word signifying either green or light-blue. The word xAwpos, which signifies green in the Odyssey (xvi. 47), if it does not rather signify fresh and juicy... | |
| John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 464 páginas
...consider that the art which he practised in those days did not require him to have the eye of a Buskin or a Tennyson in the contemplation of sunsets or the...word signifying either green or light-blue. The word xAupos, which signifies green in the Odyssey (xvi. 47), if it does not rather signify fresh and juicg... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 550 páginas
...establishing generally a great vagueness in their use, and concludes on the whole, we think fairly enough, that ' the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age.' With regard to the pathos of musical sound Homer is feebler still,... | |
| 1879 - 562 páginas
...establishing generally a great vagueness in their use, and concludes on the whole, we think fairly enough, that ' the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age.' With regard to the pathos of musical sound Homer is feebler still,... | |
| Adolf Portmann, Rudolf Ritsema - 1974 - 512 páginas
...the Greeks as a race suffered from a form of colour-blindness.2 Somewhat similarly, Gladstone argued that "the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age", because colours, both natural and artificial, played a less prominent... | |
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