 | Thomas R. Jolliffe, Thomas Robert Jolliffe - Albania - 1827 - 304 pages
...treatise — the subject of epigrammatic smartness — is described by Gray in the following terms : — " The historical part of it is admirable, and though...disposed with all the art and management of the best tragic writer, (for the slightest circumstance in it wants not its force and meaning,) it exhibits... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1827 - 314 pages
...treatise — the subject of epigrammatic smartness — is described by Gray in the following terms : — " The historical part of it is admirable, and though...disposed with all the art and management of the best tragic writer, (for the slightest circumstance in it wants not its force and meaning,) it exhibits... | |
 | Plato - 1854 - 548 pages
...course of antiquity has regarded it as one of his principal works ; and what seems decisive, Aristotle himself cites it as a work of his master. The historical...disposed with all the art and management of the best tragic writer, for the slightest circumstance in it wants not its force and meaning, it exhibits nothing... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English language - 1884 - 422 pages
...course of antiquity has regarded it as one of Ms principal works; and (what seems decisive) Aristotle8 himself cites it, as a work of his master. The historical...noble simplicity of nature. 1 Anthologia, L. 1. 44. s Cicero, Tusc. Quaest. L. 1. 32. 3 Meteorolog. L. 2. 2. NOTES ON THE GREEK TEXT. P. 58. KOT' eviavrov.]... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - 428 pages
...of antiquity has regarded it as one of his principal works ; and (what seems decisive) Aristotle 3 himself cites it, as a work of his master. The historical...simplicity of nature. 1 Anthologia, L. 1. 44. 2 Cicero, Tusc. Qusest. L. 1. 32. 3 Meteorolog. L. 2. 2. NOTES ON THE GREEK TEXT. P. 58. KOr' eviavrov. ] This... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 444 pages
...of antiquity has regarded it as one of his principal works ; and (what seems decisive) Aristotle 3 himself cites it, as a work of his master. The historical...force and meaning) it exhibits nothing to the eye but 1 Anthologia, 1. 1, 44. * Cicero, Tusc. Quaest. 1. 1, 32. 9 Meteorolog. 1. 2, z. the noble simplicity... | |
 | Martin Lowther Clarke - Greek language - 1983 - 274 pages
...his dialogues'.2 A quotation from his notes on the Phaedo will show the character of his approach : ' The historical part of it is admirable, and though...disposed with all the art and management of the best tragic writer (for the slightest circumstance in it wants not its force and meaning), it exhibits nothing... | |
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... of the soul's mortality, than from any thing in the piece itself unlike the manner or the tenets of the philosopher, to whom it has always been ascribed. The whole course of antiquity has regarded it as one of his principal works ; and what seems... 