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... Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama - Seite 226von John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 668 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 Seiten
...but higher song Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem i'ha-bus challeng'd for his own. Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus...iambic, 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... | |
| 1849 - 468 Seiten
...poverty, and slander, recalled and revelled in its glowing recollections — " Of what the ancient grave tragedians taught, In chorus or iambic, teachers...life, High actions and high passions best describing." Supported by such authority, none need surely be too fastidious to examine carefully before they judge,... | |
| James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 Seiten
...Melesigenea, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Pluebus challenged for his own : Thence what the lolly, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers...treat Of fate and chance, and change in human life, Ql|h actions, and high passions best describing : ; The first of these assertions will probably be... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 Seiten
...grave tragedians taught In Chorus or lambick, 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 ; 365 High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient,... | |
| John Styles - 1838 - 224 Seiten
...morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent in any theatrical compositions as in what " ' Her lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic : teachers best Of moral prudence.' " Yet in paying a just and warm tribute to the moral excellences of these sublime dramatists, is not... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 Seiten
...grave tragedians taught In Chorus or lambick, 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 ; 365 High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 Seiten
...Nor blame the partial fate,, if they refuse The* imperial banquet and lac rich attire. Вами. Oí fate, and chance, and change in human life. High actions and high passions best describing. Byrm. I feel the impulse — yet I do not plunge ; I see the peril — yet do not recede ; A nd my... | |
| 1840 - 372 Seiten
...lyric odes, And his who gave them breath, but higher sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus...life ; High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
| James Montgomery - 1840 - 340 Seiten
...but higher sung, Blind Melesige nes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phojbus challenged for his own : Thence what the lofty, grave tragedians taught In...chance, and change in human life, High actions, and nigh passions best describing : The first of these assertions will probably be admitted, — that eloquence... | |
| Hannah More - 1840 - 844 Seiten
...morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent in any theatrical compositions, as in what " her lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral piudence." Yet, in paying a just and warm tribute to the moral excellences of these sublime dramatists,... | |
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