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The sharpness of this parody of Euripides consists in this : Cleon , under a pretence of an embassy to Argos , was suspected of carrying on a > private correspondence with the Spartans , on the subject of 8 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
The sharpness of this parody of Euripides consists in this : Cleon , under a pretence of an embassy to Argos , was suspected of carrying on a > private correspondence with the Spartans , on the subject of 8 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
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... αφιγμενος " and he adds another , which shews his economy and prudence ; for he says , that had he used any other vehicle , he must have carried twice the provision , whereas this animal will feed on what he himself had digested .
... αφιγμενος " and he adds another , which shews his economy and prudence ; for he says , that had he used any other vehicle , he must have carried twice the provision , whereas this animal will feed on what he himself had digested .
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Ceremonies in sacrificing : extinguishing a lighted torch in the water , with which they washed ; carrying the vessel with barley , a garland , and knife in it , round the altar to the right ; throwing whole barley among the people ...
Ceremonies in sacrificing : extinguishing a lighted torch in the water , with which they washed ; carrying the vessel with barley , a garland , and knife in it , round the altar to the right ; throwing whole barley among the people ...
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829 , it lies in heaven : but how the chorus get thither I cannot imagine , as they have no hippo - canthari ( or horse - beetles ) to carry them to that place . OBSERVATION . Bentley dates the time of the action of PAX . 23.
829 , it lies in heaven : but how the chorus get thither I cannot imagine , as they have no hippo - canthari ( or horse - beetles ) to carry them to that place . OBSERVATION . Bentley dates the time of the action of PAX . 23.
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The scene is a wild unfrequented country , which terminates in mountains : there the old men are seen , accompanied by two slaves who carry their little baggage , fatigued and fretting at the carelessness of their guides , who , though ...
The scene is a wild unfrequented country , which terminates in mountains : there the old men are seen , accompanied by two slaves who carry their little baggage , fatigued and fretting at the carelessness of their guides , who , though ...
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Page 217 - ... not under their senses, they were fain to borrow words from ordinary known ideas of sensation, by that means to make others the more easily to conceive those operations they experimented in themselves, which made no outward sensible appearances...
Page 269 - Druids held the immortality of the soul, and a state of future rewards and punishments...
Page 127 - Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not; it is what 'eye hath not seen, ear not heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive'.
Page 127 - ... in its natural state. But yet excess of cold as well as heat pains us, because it is equally destructive to that temper which is necessary to the preservation of life, and the exercise of the several functions of the body, and which consists in a moderate degree of warmth ; or, if you please, a motion of the insensible parts of our bodies, confined within certain bounds.
Page 212 - who are possessed of this faculty,' (that is, of fetching a voice from the belly or stomach) 'can manage their voice in so wonderful a manner that it shall seem to come from what part they please, not of themselves only, but of any other person in the company, or even from the bottom of a well, down a chimney, from below stairs, &c. &c. of which I myself have been witness.
Page 241 - there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals, the woman has often the advantage of the man."* In this opinion I have no doubt that Plato is in the right.
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| Title | Notes on Aristophanes and Plato Volume 4 of The Works of Thomas Gray: In Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse Volume 4 of Works in Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Editor | Edmund Gosse |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1884 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 4 pages |
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