Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece: During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Christian Æra, Volumen 4G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796 |
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... observation and analysis which inclined the philofophers to collect in fociety the fcattered traits , the union of which characterizes greatnefs of foul , or pufillanimi- ty , engaged the poets to paint , generally , the fingularities ...
... observation and analysis which inclined the philofophers to collect in fociety the fcattered traits , the union of which characterizes greatnefs of foul , or pufillanimi- ty , engaged the poets to paint , generally , the fingularities ...
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... observe that , to a- void confusion , I admit only a few interlocutors . FIRST CONVERSATION . Zopyrus . Since you grant me permiffion , illuftrious Theo- dectes , I fhall , in the first place , afk you what is the object of tragedy ...
... observe that , to a- void confusion , I admit only a few interlocutors . FIRST CONVERSATION . Zopyrus . Since you grant me permiffion , illuftrious Theo- dectes , I fhall , in the first place , afk you what is the object of tragedy ...
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... observed that there is one for the common people , and another for more enlightened perfons : it was agreed , there- fore , to confider that only which is required in an exhibition prefented to the multitude . The following are the ...
... observed that there is one for the common people , and another for more enlightened perfons : it was agreed , there- fore , to confider that only which is required in an exhibition prefented to the multitude . The following are the ...
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... observe " . Nicephorus . Your friend , to excufe Sophocles , attributes . to him an intention which he never had ; for Œdipus openly declares his ignorance , and that he had never known in what manner the death of Laius had happened ...
... observe " . Nicephorus . Your friend , to excufe Sophocles , attributes . to him an intention which he never had ; for Œdipus openly declares his ignorance , and that he had never known in what manner the death of Laius had happened ...
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... observed by intelligent persons , or which are shaded over by a lively intereft , are not greatly to be dreaded by an author . How many pieces are there in which it is fuppofed that , while a few verfes are recited , a number of events ...
... observed by intelligent persons , or which are shaded over by a lively intereft , are not greatly to be dreaded by an author . How many pieces are there in which it is fuppofed that , while a few verfes are recited , a number of events ...
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Página 27 - And roll the darkening waves, my father slew me, A victim to Diana, so he thought, For Helen's sake, its bay where Aulis winds, To fame well known; for there his thousand ships...
Página 6 - The first of these writers has been censured for having admitted mute characters into his drama. " Achilles after the death of his friend, and Niobe after the destruction of her children, appear on the stage, and remain during several scenes motionless...
Página 3 - ... already known. The hymns in honour of Bacchus, while they described his rapid progress and splendid conquests, became imitative ; and in the contests of the Pythian games, the players on the flute who entered into competition were enjoined by an express law to represent successively the circumstances that had preceded, accompanied, and followed the victory of Apollo over Python. Some years after this regulation...
Página 9 - I gor'd him with a wound; a grateful present To the stern god, that in the realms below Reigns o'er the dead: there let him take his seat. He lay: and spouting from his wounds a stream Of blood, bedew'd me with these crimson drops. I glory in them, like the genial earth, When the warm showers of...
Página 454 - All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Página 253 - The priefts, after having examined the entrails of the victims, declared that the gods approved the marriage. To conclude the ceremonies, we proceeded to the Artemifium, where the lovers depofited each a lock of their hair on the tomb of the laft Theori of the Hyperboreans.
Página 6 - Niobe after the destruction of her children, appear on the stage, and remain during several scenes motionless, their heads covered with a veil and without uttering a word ; but if their eyes had overflown with tears, and they had poured forth the bitterest lamentations, could they have produced an effect so terrible as this veil, this silence, and...
Página 21 - ... painted men greater than they can be, Sophocles as they ought to be, and Euripides as they are.
Página 40 - Ilegemori proposed to break off the piece abruptly; but the Athenians, without removing from their places, covered themselves with their cloaks, and, after having paid the tribute of a few tears to their relatives who had fallen in...
Página 362 - Cnof'us, and adduce, as the principal fupport of this opinion, the coins of that city, which reprefent the plan of it, according as the arii ils conceived it.