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... up a few necessary utensils , and set out for the court of that prince under the conduct of a jay and a raven , birds of great distinction in augury , without whose direction the Greeks never undertook any thing of consequence .
... up a few necessary utensils , and set out for the court of that prince under the conduct of a jay and a raven , birds of great distinction in augury , without whose direction the Greeks never undertook any thing of consequence .
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The birds , in the ensuing chorus , relate their travels , and describe the strange things and strange men they have seen in them . Act 4. Scene 1 . A person in disguise , with all the appearance of caution and fear , comes to enquire ...
The birds , in the ensuing chorus , relate their travels , and describe the strange things and strange men they have seen in them . Act 4. Scene 1 . A person in disguise , with all the appearance of caution and fear , comes to enquire ...
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... and shews how much it would be for the mutual interests of both nations ; and Neptune is hungry enough to be glad of some reasonable pretence to give the thing up . The Triballian god is asked his opinion for form : he mutters ...
... and shews how much it would be for the mutual interests of both nations ; and Neptune is hungry enough to be glad of some reasonable pretence to give the thing up . The Triballian god is asked his opinion for form : he mutters ...
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A manner of civilly refusing a thing : Etavw . καλλιστα , πανυ καλως . 546. See the history of Theramenes . Schol . 631. The horrid manner of torturing slaves , viz . Εν κλιμακι δησας , binding them down with their back on a pair of ...
A manner of civilly refusing a thing : Etavw . καλλιστα , πανυ καλως . 546. See the history of Theramenes . Schol . 631. The horrid manner of torturing slaves , viz . Εν κλιμακι δησας , binding them down with their back on a pair of ...
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It is upon eloquence and is designed to demonstrate , that no writer , whether legislator , orator , historian , or poet , can do any thing excellent without a 1 Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions , & c . V. 9 , p . 49 .
It is upon eloquence and is designed to demonstrate , that no writer , whether legislator , orator , historian , or poet , can do any thing excellent without a 1 Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions , & c . V. 9 , p . 49 .
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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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