 | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus - 1856 - 518 pages
...censure, is yet that of an exuberant genius. 63. ALC^EUS is deservedly complimented with a golden quill} for that part of his works in which he inveighs against...language ; and though it is chiefly employed in attacking follies, yet it has great force in other departments : for it is sublime, elegant, and graceful ; and... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin language - 1889 - 520 pages
...nature. Simonides is favorably spoken of: Simonides, though in other respects of no very high genius, may be commended for a propriety of language, and...that particular, to all other writers of the kind. Sappho receives no mention from Quintilian. Of Roman lyric poets, Horace is pitted alone, though not... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin literature - 1900 - 332 pages
...nature. Simonides is favorably spoken of: Simonides, though in other respects of no very high genius, may be commended for a propriety of language, and...that particular, to all other writers of the kind. Sappho receives no mention from Quintilian. Of Roman lyric poets, Horace is pitted alone, though not... | |
 | Quintilian - Latin prose literature - 1902 - 544 pages
...qualified for those of a higher nature. 64. SIMONIIJES, though in other respects of no very high genius.J may be commended for a propriety of language, and...pity, so that some prefer him, in that particular, toN all other writers of the kind. 65. The old comedy retains, almost alone, the pure grace J >f Attic... | |
 | Lewis Flint Anderson - Education - 1907 - 108 pages
...appreciations of this sort. For instance, "Simonides, though in other respects of no very high genius, may be commended for a propriety of language and a...that particular to all other writers of the kind." (Inst. of Or., 10, i, 64.) RHETORICAL EXERCISES. The school work of the Romans culminated in the rhetorical... | |
 | Lewis Flint Anderson - Education - 1909 - 370 pages
...appreciations of this sort. For instance, " Simonides, though in other respects of no very high genius, may be commended for a propriety of language and a...that particular to all other writers of the kind." RHETORICAL EXERCISES As has already been indicated, the ideal to which the secondary and higher schools... | |
 | Quintilian - Latin prose literature - 1913 - 516 pages
...eloquence ; on account of all which qualities Horace * justly thinks him inimitable. 62. As to STESICHOBDS, the very subjects that he has chosen show how powerful...The old comedy retains, almost alone, the pure grace if Attic diction, and the charm of a most eloquent freedom of language ; and though it is chiefly employed... | |
 | Child development - 1907 - 562 pages
...appreciations of this sort. For instance, "Simonides, though in other respects of no very high genius, may be commended for a propriety of language and a...that particular to all other writers of the kind." (Inst. of Or., 10, 1, 64.) RHETORICAL EXERCISES. and grammatical training he had received in the development... | |
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J may be commended for a propriety of language, and a pleasing kind of sweetness ; but his chief excellence is in exciting pity, so that some prefer him, in that particular, to all other writers of the kind. 