 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 páginas
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd Ja brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
 | 1822 - 284 páginas
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
 | 1822 - 526 páginas
...characters must be parallel. Such was the tone and elevation of the Greek tragedy, which treated " Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, : High actions and high passions best describing." There must be the K«X«I wpafsij or high actions to invest a character with that sort of atmosphere... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 páginas
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing: Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 páginas
...eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook th' arsenal and fulmin'd over Greece, 270 264. Of fate, and chance, and change in human life High actions, and high passions best describing :] The most usual arguments of the Greek tragic writers (and indeed of their epic poets also) were... | |
 | John Aikin, Lucy Aikin - 1824 - 500 páginas
...teachers hest Of moral prudence, with delight received ID brief sententious precepts, while they treat * Of Fate, and Chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing. Par. Beg.iv.S61. It is this strain of moral precept and sententious remark which he has chosen for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat half the world, God knows, against the rest; Did not the sneer of more impartial men At sense : Thence to the famous orators repair. Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 páginas
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 páginas
...fire, Nor blame the partial fates, if they refuse The' imperial banquet and tne rich attire. Beattie. Of fate, and chance, and change in human life. High actions and high passions best describing. Byron. I feel the impulse — yet I do not plunge ; I see the peril — yet do not recede ; And my... | |
 | 1830 - 312 páginas
...lofty, grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence-While they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing." Nor are the strains of epic or lyric poetry less fraught with admirable sentiment and exalted morality... | |
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Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; High actions, and high passions best... 
