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... introduced the principal characters in poor apparel to move compassion . The sententious pertness of his per- sonages , and the inactiveness and folly of his chorusses , are all noticed . The poverty of his mother is alluded to . 442 ...
... introduced the principal characters in poor apparel to move compassion . The sententious pertness of his per- sonages , and the inactiveness and folly of his chorusses , are all noticed . The poverty of his mother is alluded to . 442 ...
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... introduce that cycle , which , however , did not obtain : the months still continuing of thirty , and the year of three ... introduced in his tragedies , certain deities deploring and lamenting themselves . A parody of two lines in the ...
... introduce that cycle , which , however , did not obtain : the months still continuing of thirty , and the year of three ... introduced in his tragedies , certain deities deploring and lamenting themselves . A parody of two lines in the ...
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... introduced in like sort taming Pegasus for the same purpose , and seating himself on his back . This Ήσυχος , ήσυχος , ηρεμα , κανθών , is a parody of that scene which begun , Αγ ' ω φιλον μοι Πηγασου πτερον : and so , from the elevated ...
... introduced in like sort taming Pegasus for the same purpose , and seating himself on his back . This Ήσυχος , ήσυχος , ηρεμα , κανθών , is a parody of that scene which begun , Αγ ' ω φιλον μοι Πηγασου πτερον : and so , from the elevated ...
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... slain in Sicily about two years before this , and Hyperbolus was murdered at Samos in this very year . 855. That tragedy bad and insipid . Parody of the Helena , and of the Andromeda . Echo introduced into 44 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
... slain in Sicily about two years before this , and Hyperbolus was murdered at Samos in this very year . 855. That tragedy bad and insipid . Parody of the Helena , and of the Andromeda . Echo introduced into 44 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
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Thomas Gray Edmund Gosse. Helena , and of the Andromeda . Echo introduced into it answering to the lamentations of Andromeda . 883. Proteas , the son of Epicles , is twice mentioned by Thucydides , as Erparnyos commanding at sea ...
Thomas Gray Edmund Gosse. Helena , and of the Andromeda . Echo introduced into it answering to the lamentations of Andromeda . 883. Proteas , the son of Epicles , is twice mentioned by Thucydides , as Erparnyos commanding at sea ...
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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.