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
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 страница
...higher sung. Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phojbus challenged for his own: Thence what the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus...life High actions, and high passions best describing: The first of these assertions will probably be admitted,—that eloquence has frequently been presented... | |
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 488 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...life, High actions, and high passions best describing: Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that... | |
| George Rapelje - 1834 - 426 страница
...higher sung, Blind Melesignes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phojbus challenged for 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 fate, and chance, and change in human life;... | |
| Hannah More - 1834 - 436 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... | |
| 1836 - 558 страница
...higher sung, Blind Mclesigenes, thence Homer called, Wbose poem Phœbus challenged for this 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... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1836 - 538 страница
...maxims, but the grounds of a pure morality, the mere fragments of which— " The lofty grave tragedian taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral...with delight received In brief sententious precepts ;" and that the sublime truths of the divine unity and attributes, which a Plato found most hard to... | |
| 1837 - 638 страница
...only the maxims," he proceeds, " but the grounds of a pure morality, the mere fragments of which ' The lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic,...with delight received In brief sententious precepts ;' and that the sublime truths of the divine unity and attributes, which a Plato found most hard to... | |
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 страница
...higher sung Blind Melesigeues, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phffibus challeng'd for 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 fate, and chance, and change in human Hie... | |
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 страница
...higher sung' Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phcebus challeng'd for 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 fate, and chance, and change in human life;... | |
| John Styles - 1838 - 224 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 excellences of these sublime dramatists, is not... | |
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