Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|         the spirit which hung over Greek literature for a thousand
 2 Phaedr| abstraction of morality and of the Greek manner of regarding the
 3 Phaedr|             more than in any other Greek writer, the local and transitory
 4 Phaedr|        with Plato himself and with Greek notions generally. He is
 5 Phaedr|    friendship over the mind of the Greek. The master in the art of
 6 Phaedr|   prevalent at Athens and in other Greek cities; or that friendships
 7 Phaedr|            in the fairest works of Greek art, Plato ever conceived
 8 Phaedr|   Christian doctrines in these old Greek legends? While acknowledging
 9 Phaedr|       under the marble exterior of Greek literature was concealed
10 Phaedr|          to her.~ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE.~One of the main
11 Phaedr|       interminable marsh, in which Greek literature was soon to disappear.
12 Phaedr|       vision of the decline of the Greek drama and of the contrast
13 Phaedr|          And from this decline the Greek language and literature,
14 Phaedr|         Christian reproductions of Greek plays, novels like the silly
15 Phaedr|            language or in art. The Greek world became vacant, barbaric,
16 Phaedr|           the innumerable rolls of Greek literature.~If we seek to
17 Phaedr|      ancient standard of classical Greek art and literature that
18 Phaedr|            is doubtful whether any Greek author was justly appreciated
19 Phaedr|            part of them, while the Greek fathers were mostly preserved.
20 Phaedr|            Italy.~The character of Greek literature sank lower as