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... Collection continued and concluded -Anecdotes of Antiphanes . 144. Collection of Fragments from the Comedies of Antiphanes . 145. Of Anaxandrides - Of Aristophon , with Frag- ments of that Poet - Of Axionicus , Bathon , Cha- remon ...
... Collection continued and concluded -Anecdotes of Antiphanes . 144. Collection of Fragments from the Comedies of Antiphanes . 145. Of Anaxandrides - Of Aristophon , with Frag- ments of that Poet - Of Axionicus , Bathon , Cha- remon ...
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... collection of miscellaneous essays , which through a variety of amusing matter should convey instruction to some , entertainment to most , and disgust to none of my readers . To effect these purposes I studied in the first place to ...
... collection of miscellaneous essays , which through a variety of amusing matter should convey instruction to some , entertainment to most , and disgust to none of my readers . To effect these purposes I studied in the first place to ...
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... collections , which , till the fatal conflagrations at Alexandria , remained entire , and were , without com- parison ... collection , much augmented by the literary munificence of Hipparchus and the succeed- ing archons ; Xerxes was not ...
... collections , which , till the fatal conflagrations at Alexandria , remained entire , and were , without com- parison ... collection , much augmented by the literary munificence of Hipparchus and the succeed- ing archons ; Xerxes was not ...
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... collection with the poems of the Iliad and Odyssey , This important work was both extremely difficult to execute , and attended with very considerable ex- pense in the progress of it . The rhapsodies of Homer were scattered up and down ...
... collection with the poems of the Iliad and Odyssey , This important work was both extremely difficult to execute , and attended with very considerable ex- pense in the progress of it . The rhapsodies of Homer were scattered up and down ...
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... collection , and the rhapsodists ceased to come in , Pisistratus caused them all to as- semble and produce their several copies for general review : the whole was now arranged according to the natural order of the poems , and in that ...
... collection , and the rhapsodists ceased to come in , Pisistratus caused them all to as- semble and produce their several copies for general review : the whole was now arranged according to the natural order of the poems , and in that ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amongst ancient archon Aristogiton Aristophanes Aristotle ascribed Athenæus Athenian Athens Attica Bacchus bard called celebrated character charge chorus citizens comedy comic poets composed contemporary Cratinus Cypriacs dances death decree deities divine Draco drama elegant Epicharmus Eschylus Eumolpus Eupolis Euripides fables father favour fragments genius give grammarians Grecian Greece Greek hand Harmodius Harmodius and Aristogiton heart Hesiod Hipparchus Hippias Homer honour Iliad Iliad and Odyssey illustrious Ionia king labour laws lived manner Megacles Menander ment merit moral Musæus muse nature NUMBER observed Olymp Olympiad oracles Orpheus passages period person philosopher Phrynichus Pisistratus Plato Plutarch poem poetry posterity praise Pratinas prince prize reader reign remains satire Satyrs says scene seems Sibyls Socrates Solon Sophocles speak spirit stage style Suidas supposed Susarion Thales Thamyris Thespis thing tion titles took tragedy tragic translation tyrant verses whilst writers wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 47 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Seite 112 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Seite 234 - Oh woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man : we had been brutes without you ! Angels are painted fair to look like you : There's in you all, that we believe of" heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Seite 273 - Die when thou wilt. Mortal, expect another life on earth ; And for (hat life make choice of all creation What thou wilt be ; dog, sheep, goat, man, or horse ; For live again thou must; it is thy fate: Choose only in what form; there thou art free...
Seite 195 - Almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or sub-parasites. And yet I mean not those that have your bare town-art...
Seite 185 - ... is an accident of fortune. MEL. No, marriage is rather like a game at bowls: fortune indeed makes the match, and the two nearest, and sometimes the two farthest, are together, but the game depends entirely upon judgment.
Seite 38 - ... have not been able to diminish. It has been the chief aim of all my attempts to reconcile and endear man to man: I love my country and contemporaries to a degree of enthusiasm that I am not sure is perfectly defensible, though to do them justice, each in their turns have taken some pains to cure me of my partiality.
Seite 48 - Eleusynians were defeated and despoiled of all they possessed, except the mysteries of Ceres abovementioned ; of these they were left in undisturbed enjoyment: their king Eumolpus was slain in battle; but Neptune, whose son he was, revenged his loss by striking his conqueror dead with his trident. Thus perished Erechthonius by immortal hands, if we take the authority of Euripides, the tragic poet, after he had reigned fifty years in Athens. In his time the people of Attica, heretofore called Cecropians,...
Seite 196 - Turn short as doth a swallow; and be here, And there, and here, and yonder, all at once; Present to any humour, all occasion; And change a visor, swifter than a thought! This is the creature had the art born with him; Toils not to learn it, but doth practise it Out of most excellent nature: and such sparks Are the true parasites, others but their zanis.
Seite 14 - ... his horse's feet, and lay the butt of his whip upon my scull? I think no man can bear that; so I pulled him out of the saddle and banged him well, and I think no good man, as you appear to be, will say otherwise than that he well deserved it. If this be so, answered the major, I can say nothing to the contrary. — How, sir, exclaimed the squire, who was now upon his legs, is a rascal like this to return blow for blow, and does Major Manlove abet him in such insolence ? — I am sorry, sir...