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Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring! -- Ruben Dario
Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici. -- Bayard Taylor
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. -- Homer
White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides ... -- Muse
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well. -- Joni Mitchell
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments. -- Sinclair Lewis
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. -- Alexander Hamilton
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. -- Walter Bagehot
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make -- William Butler Yeats
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies. -- William Faulkner
Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
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There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything. -- Swami Vivekananda
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite. -- Edward Gibbon
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. -- James Polshek

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