Museum Criticum: Or, Cambridge Classical ResearchesJames Henry Monk, Charles James Blomfield J. Murray, 1826 - Classical philology |
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Page 599 - As still are wont t' annoy the walled town, Might there be heard : but careless Quiet lies Wrapt in eternal silence far from enemies...
Page 113 - Among the ancients, plain-speaking was the fashion ; nor was that ceremonious delicacy introduced, which has taught men to abuse each other with the utmost politeness, and express the most indecent ideas in the most modest language.
Page 511 - ... in vogue with us at that time. But it was not long before I, with immense pains but no assistance, set myself with the utmost zeal to the study of Sir Isaac Newton's wonderful discoveries in his Pkilaophia Naturalis Principia Mathtmatica, one or two of which lectures I had heard him read in the public schools, though I understood them not at all at that time...
Page 114 - ... with the utmost politeness, and express the most indecent ideas in the most modest language. The ancients had little of this ; they were accustomed to call a spade a spade, to give every thing its proper name. There is another sort of indecency, which is infinitely more dangerous ; which corrupts the heart without offending the ear.
Page 201 - ... imagined when they were first employed; thus a Libation was originally denoted by a hand holding a jar, with two streams of a liquid issuing from it, but in this inscription the representation has degenerated into a bird's foot. With respect to the epistolographic or enchorial character, it does not seem quite certain that it could be explained even if the hieroglyphics were perfectly understood, for many of the characters neither resemble the corresponding hieroglyphics, nor are capable of being...
Page 170 - In the four or five hundred years which elapsed, between the date of the inscription, and that of the oldest Coptic books extant, the language appears to have changed much more, than those of Greece and Italy have changed in two thousand...
Page 114 - Aristophanes's indecency, there is nothing that can allure, but much that must deter. He never dresses up the most detestable vices in an amiable light; but generally, by describing them in their native colours, makes the reader disgusted with them. His abuse of the most eminent citizens may be accounted for upon similar principles. Besides, in a republic, freedom of speech was deemed an essential privilege of a citizen. Demosthenes treats his adversaries with such language as would, in our days,...
Page 513 - About 1694 the celebrated Samuel Clarke [of Norwich], then an undergraduate, defended in the schools a question taken from the philosophy of Newton : a step which must have had the approbation of the moderator who presided at the disputations: and his translation of Rohault with references to the Principia was first published in 1697 ; and not in 1718 as Professor Playfair has strangely supposed.
Page 114 - We have, indeed, retained the matter, but judiciously * rejected what was offensive in the manner. In his* plots too, it must be owned, Aristophanes is sometimes faulty. It ought however to be observed, that his contemporary comic poets did not pique themselves upon the artful management of the plot. Aristophanes has therefore the usual failing of dramatic writers, to introduce speeches, and even scenes, not much conducing to the business of the drama. But if the only use of the plot be, as the great...