An analysis of the literature of ancient GreeceLongman & Company, 1833 - 154 pages |
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Æschylus Alwood's Lit amongst ancient Antiq appear Aristophanes Aristotle arts Athenians Athens Attica beauty birth Cadmus CHAP character chorus circumstances comedy Creon Cyrus deity Demosthenes ditto doctrines Doncaster drama early Edipus Egypt Egyptians elegant eloquence enquiry epic epic poetry Eschylus Eteocles Euripides evidence excellent fable father genius Greece Greek language Greeks Hebrew Hence hero Herodotus Hesiod historian Homer honour ideas Iliad Isocrates language letters manner Mansfield Menestheus merits mind muse nature observes odes opinion orator Pelasgi perhaps period philosopher Pindar Plato poems poet poetry possess principle pupil remarks render says sentiments Socrates Sophocles soul style supposed talents taste Thespis things Thrace Thucydides tragedy tragic truth verse virtue words writers Xenophon ἂν γὰρ δὲ διὰ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ περὶ πρὸς τὰ τὰς τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοὺς τῶν ὡς
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Page 38 - The character of these late Pindarics is a bundle of rambling incoherent thoughts, expressed in a like parcel of irregular stanzas, which also consist of such another complication of disproportioned, uncertain, and perplexed verses and rhymes.
Page 8 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Page 50 - When Atreus' son harangued the listening train, Just was his sense, and his expression plain, His words succinct, yet full, without a fault; He spoke no more than just the thing he ought.
Page 50 - But, when he speaks, what elocution flows ! Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious accents fall with easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! Wondering we hear; and, fix'd in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censure of our eyes.
Page 40 - I am persuaded that whoever will consider the Odes of Pindar with regard to the manners and customs of the age in which they were written; the occasions which gave birth to them; and the places in which they were intended to be recited; will find little reason to censure Pindar for want of order and regularity in the plans of his compositions. On the contrary, perhaps, he will be inclined to admire him for raising so many beauties from such trivial hints; and for kindling, as he sometimes does, so...
Page 37 - Pindar one hak^of the first-fruit offerings brought by the religions to his shrine ; and to allow him a place in his temple; where in an iron chair he was used to sit and sing his hymns, in honour of that god.
Page 104 - whose memoirs I have written, was so pious, that he undertook nothing without asking counsel of the Gods ; so just, that he never did the smallest injury to any one, but rendered essential services to many ; so temperate, that he never preferred pleasure to virtue ; and so wise, that he was able, even in the most difficult cases, without advice, to judge what was expedient and right.
Page 9 - I find myself obliged to refer Tammuz, as well as the Greek and Roman Hercules, to that class of idols which were originally designed to represent Hie promised Saviour (Christ Jesus), the desire of all nations. His other name, Adonis, is almost the very Hebrew word ' Our Lord,' a well-known title of Christ."4 So it seems that the ingenious and most learned orthodox Dr.
Page 50 - O king ! have seen that wondrous man When, trusting Jove and hospitable laws, To Troy he came, to plead the Grecian cause; (Great...
Page 50 - Have singled out, is Ithacus the wise; A barren island boasts his glorious birth; His fame for wisdom fills the spacious earth.