Grecian

Famous quotes containing the word grecian:

“Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever sounding and resounding in the ears of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)