No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come
down to us.
With the exception of a few of the musicians and singers, and of a few of the oligarchs, all the great creators of the period whose names have come down to us, were revolutionists.
He was undoubtedly a great genius; yet, beyond weird and haunting fragments of his verse, quoted in the writings of others, nothing of his has come down to us.
WHO wrote the stories which are found in the old Gaelic manuscripts we do not know, yet the names of some of the old Gaelic poets have come
down to us.
At first only we three stood alone, for a long time, watching you coming
down to us, and feeling the breeze drop to a calm almost; but afterwards others, too, rose, one after another, and by-and-by I had all my crew behind me.
Come
down to us,' they said, 'we will do you no harm.
I shall content myself with barely observing here, that of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed
down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there remain vestiges of them, appear to have been most free from the fetters of that mistaken principle, and were accordingly those which have best deserved, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers.
Pakistan has made it clear to the Trump administration that it will not bow
down to US conditions.
In world markets, oil prices varied yesterday after reports of reduction to Iraqi oil exports, and slow
down to US oil digging wells.
It is
down to us that we are having to play these important games.
Milner said: "It's
down to us to show we have learnt from those experiences in the summer.
It is part and parcel of football and
down to us to make sure the only thing that matters is what happens on the pitch," The BBC Sports quoted Milner, as saying.
We've got a big game in the FA Cup and there are plenty of league games and it is
down to us to keep this form going," he said.
We know we have the quality to get promoted and it's
down to us to prove it.
People rule us out at the moment but it is
down to us to prove them wrong.
