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I 1 It was not any oligarchy , or tyranny , which retrenched the chorus in the Athenian comedy , or prohibited the representation of real characters , as Platonius asserts , in his observations entitled Περι διαφοράς κωμωδιών .
I 1 It was not any oligarchy , or tyranny , which retrenched the chorus in the Athenian comedy , or prohibited the representation of real characters , as Platonius asserts , in his observations entitled Περι διαφοράς κωμωδιών .
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Observe the way of singing successively ( see Nubes , v . 1367 ) , and continuing the same Scholion , giving a myrtle branch from one to another . 1275. Eli Tives oi , & c . This obscure antistrophe relates to some transaction between ...
Observe the way of singing successively ( see Nubes , v . 1367 ) , and continuing the same Scholion , giving a myrtle branch from one to another . 1275. Eli Tives oi , & c . This obscure antistrophe relates to some transaction between ...
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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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OBSERVATION . Bentley dates the time of the action of this play as above , Ol . 90. 2. Palmerius dates it a year sooner , Ol . 90 . 1 .; Sam . Petitus two years earlier , Ol . 89. 3. Archonte Alcæo ; and I cannot but think the last to ...
OBSERVATION . Bentley dates the time of the action of this play as above , Ol . 90. 2. Palmerius dates it a year sooner , Ol . 90 . 1 .; Sam . Petitus two years earlier , Ol . 89. 3. Archonte Alcæo ; and I cannot but think the last to ...
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474 , and 492 , is only a reproach for the neutrality which they had observed during the war ; or their inclinations might well be suspected even at this time , before they had actually formed a new confederacy against Sparta , as it ...
474 , and 492 , is only a reproach for the neutrality which they had observed during the war ; or their inclinations might well be suspected even at this time , before they had actually formed a new confederacy against Sparta , as it ...
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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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