 | English literature - 1754 - 670 pages
...Vol. xi\. may with much greater truth be fakl, " The age will never aeain return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias, and painted by dpellfj, might repair to hear a pleading of Dtmoßbenes, or a tngedy of Sophocles." I ihr-.ll next... | |
 | John Smith, George Canning, John Hookham Frere, Robert Percy Smith - 1788 - 476 pages
...Adventurer, from whence the following is extrafreci, " The age will never again return, when a Pe" ricles, after walking with Plato in a Portico " built by Phidias,...confidered,, it feems to give the decifive turn againft the moderns; and prefents a formidable lift of great names to which we have but few to oppofe. But if we... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 336 pages
...ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said ; ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias,...painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...Adventurer, from whence the following is extracted, " The age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias,...painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles." Unless this passage is more accurately considered, it seems... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 672 pages
...ancients and moderns by the following remark: " That age will never again return; when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias,...painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles." It will never return, because it never existed. Pericles (who... | |
 | Classical philology - 1815 - 404 pages
...given us for the age of Phalaris : and to reduce that controversy within narrower bounds. G. wit!) Plato in a portico built *by Phidias, and painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes or a tragedy of Sophocles." It will never return, because it never existed. Pericles (who... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 332 pages
...ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said, ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias,...painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 pages
...ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said, ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias,...painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said ; ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias,...painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion,... | |
 | Charles Butler - Authors, English - 1824 - 368 pages
...ancients and moderns with the following remark: - — ' That age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias...painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' It will never return, because it never existed. Perities,... | |
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That age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias and painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes or a tragedy of Sophocles. 
