 | Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...His style is generally considered as the best model of attic purity; "if any man," says Cumberland, " would wish to know the language as it was spoken by...Pericles, he must seek it in the scenes of Aristophanes." J The exquisite sweetness and purity of his diction so enraptured Plato that he represents the Graces... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 534 pages
...as his remains, but when we consider them as the only remains, which give us any complete specimens of the Greek comedy, they become inestimable through...scenes of Aristophanes, where he is not using a foreign oraffeclcd diction, for the purpose of accommodating it to some particular or extravagant character.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 332 pages
...commanders, who have perished and gone down into tha abyss together. The comedies of Aristophanes arc universally esteemed to be the standard of Attic writing...scenes of Aristophanes, where he is not using a foreign oraffectcd diction, for the purpose of accommodating it to some particular or extravagant character.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 534 pages
...Attic writing in its greatest purity ; if any man would wish to know the language as it was cpoken by Pericles, he must seek it in the scenes of Aristophanes, where he is not using a foreign oraffeflcd diction, for the purpose of accommodating it to some particular or extravagant character.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 754 pages
...as his remains, but when we consider them as the only remains, which give us any complete specimens of the Greek comedy, they become inestimable through...extravagant character. The ancient authors, both Greek and Raman, who had all the productions of the Athenian stage before them, speak of him with such rapture... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 374 pages
...as his remains, but when we consider them as the only remains which give us any complete specimens of the Greek comedy, they become inestimable through...it in the scenes of Aristophanes, where he is not usiae a icffsfa e* icicud dictioa tW th»» purpose oi zcojJtEi':<iiL.-Ci it to some j-ir:vu!a.- or... | |
 | Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles James Blomfield - Greek literature - 1851 - 414 pages
...of the Greek language." Cumberland, in one of his papers in the Observer, makes a similar remark : " If any man would wish to know the language as it was...Pericles, he must seek it in the scenes of Aristophanes." We have not room to enter upon other able criticisms on the works of this celebrated Athenian ; but... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1819 - 776 pages
...the Greek language." Mr. Cumberland, in one of his papers of the Observer, makes a similar remark : " If any man would wish to know the language as it was...Pericles, he must seek it in the scenes of Aristophanes." We have not room to enter upon other able criticisms on the works of this celebrated Athenian, but... | |
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We receive them as treasures thrown up from a wreck, or more properly as one passenger escaped out of a fleet, whose narrative we listen to with the more eagerness and curiosity, because it is from this alone we can gain intelligence of the nature of... 