 What the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received, In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; High actions and high passions best describing.  Samson Agonistes - Страница 51написао/ла John Milton - 1890Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 страница
...hut higher Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd. Whose poem Phoebus ohalleng'd fur his own : Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or...Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of f.itc, and cbte.ee, and change in human... | |
 | John Styles - 1815 - 254 страница
...morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent in any Theatrical compositions as in what— "Her lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence." Yet in paying a just and warm tribute to the moral excellencies of these sublime Dramatists is not... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 страница
...attentively examined, and no one knew better how to explain What the lofty grave Tragedians taught ]n chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence,...with delight received In brief sententious precepts. MILTON'S PR lib. IV. I. 264. Nor had he neglected the cultivation of his own language, in which he... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1819 - 382 страница
...numbers hit By voice or hand; and various-measurM verse, JEolian charms and Dorian lyric odes, Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or...iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life,... | |
 | 1822 - 284 страница
...higher sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own : Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or...life, High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 страница
...sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, • Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own : Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or...life, High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
 | 1822 - 526 страница
...characters must be parallel. Such was the tone and elevation of the Greek tragedy, which treated " Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing." There must be the K«X«I wpa&ij or high actions to invest a character with that sort of atmosphere... | |
 | 1822 - 564 страница
...characters must be parallel. Such was the tone and elevation of the Greek tragedy, which treated " Of fate, and chance, and change in human life: High actions and high passions best describing." With respect to the construction of the play of Sardanapalus the author is not to be held responsible... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1824 - 298 страница
...their eloquent sages, and their poets— Teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received Tn brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate,...High actions and high passions best describing— fell sweetly on the ear, but could never reach the hearts of the worshippers of licentious, sensual,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страница
...sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer cull'd, [MILTON. Whose poem Phœbus challeng'd for his own Thence anly form to know, Although, his courtesy to show,...dofTd, to Marmion bending low, His broider'd cap an receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life... | |
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