Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed Principally for the Use of Young Persons at School and College : Part I, Parte1John Murray, 1830 - 239 páginas |
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... recite . The verses sung or recited at one time were called Papadia or a Rhapsody , which could not of course have been of a length disproportioned to the oc- casions which called it forth . A familiar instance of such a performance may ...
... recite . The verses sung or recited at one time were called Papadia or a Rhapsody , which could not of course have been of a length disproportioned to the oc- casions which called it forth . A familiar instance of such a performance may ...
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... recited their own compositions , and thus pub- lished and preserved them to the utmost of their power , apparently ... recite such already existing verses of other authors as had become popular ; whilst at the same time they were so far ...
... recited their own compositions , and thus pub- lished and preserved them to the utmost of their power , apparently ... recite such already existing verses of other authors as had become popular ; whilst at the same time they were so far ...
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... reciting in that city . His fame as a poet was so great that the Hymn to Apollo was attri- buted to him , * and it may be suspected that the well - known lines in that poem , relative to the residence and person of Homer , are an ...
... reciting in that city . His fame as a poet was so great that the Hymn to Apollo was attri- buted to him , * and it may be suspected that the well - known lines in that poem , relative to the residence and person of Homer , are an ...
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... recite in a certain order of poetical narration , and not confusedly , the end before the beginning , as had been the previous practice , Pisistratus , with the help of a large body of the most celebrated poets of his age , made a ...
... recite in a certain order of poetical narration , and not confusedly , the end before the beginning , as had been the previous practice , Pisistratus , with the help of a large body of the most celebrated poets of his age , made a ...
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... reciting national poetry , which was as congenial , as it was indispensable , to a pri- mitive and unlettered people , would gradually sink in estimation , become degraded in character , and finally fall into complete disuse . This we ...
... reciting national poetry , which was as congenial , as it was indispensable , to a pri- mitive and unlettered people , would gradually sink in estimation , become degraded in character , and finally fall into complete disuse . This we ...
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Achilles Æneas Æneid Æschylus amongst ancient Apollo Batrachomyomachia beautiful Cæsura called Ceres character Circe classic composition Cowper criticism Digamma divine earth Eumæus Fable Fancy Genius genuine Goddess Gods Greece Greek heart Hector hero Herodotus heroic Hesiod Homer Homeric Hymns Hymn Idomeneus Iliad Imagination immortal Ionian Isis Jupiter language Little Iliad manner Mercury Metanira mind modern moral Mysteries Mythology nature never Odyssey passage passion Patroclus peculiar perhaps Pisistratus Plato Plutarch poem poetry poets Proserpine recited remarkable Rhapsodies Rhapsodists says seems Similes spirit story suitors Telemachus thing thou Thucydides tion Trojan Troy Ulysses Venus verses whilst words ἀλλ ἀμφὶ ἀπὸ ἄρ ἄρα αὐτὰρ γάρ δὲ δὴ Διὸς ἐγὼ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐνὶ ἐπ ἐπεὶ ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ μέγα μὲν μοι νῦν οἱ οὐ οὐδὲ οὐκ πάντα περ περὶ τε τὴν τὸ τὸν τῷ τῶν ὑπὸ ὡς
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Página 23 - In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetched, Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Página 23 - Towards the crescent Moon, with grateful heart Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed That timely light, to share his joyous sport: And hence, a beaming Goddess with her Nymphs, Across the lawn and through the darksome grove (Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave) Swept in the storm of chase, as Moon and Stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven, When winds are blowing strong.
Página 12 - LEAR. Then let them anatomize Regan ; see what breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?
Página 166 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil ; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon...
Página 12 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Página 34 - Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old world ; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable strength, with the complication and the distinctness of nature herself ; to which nothing was vulgar, from which nothing was excluded ; speaking to the ear like Italian, speaking to the mind like English ; with words like pictures, with words like the gossamer film of the summer...
Página 22 - Could find commodious place for every God, Promptly received, as prodigally brought, From the surrounding countries, at the choice Of all adventurers. With...
Página 201 - When he had wrought the lovely instrument, He tried the chords, and made division meet Preluding with the plectrum, and there went Up from beneath his hand a tumult sweet Of mighty sounds, and from his lips he sent A strain of unpremeditated wit Joyous and wild and wanton...
Página 10 - O ! then. I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the fore-finger of an alderman,* Drawn with a team of little atomies Over' men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 11 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies