...few fragments of his compositions have descended to us. He wrote hymns, triumphal odes, and elegies. In the last species of composition he particularly...touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. The Lamentation of Danae, the most important of the fragments which remain of his poetry, is based...

...of human life with all its joys and sorrows, its hopes and disappointments. He wrote hymns, pseans, elegies, hyporchemes, or songs for dancing, dithyrambs,...particularly excelled. His genius was inclined to the pathetie, and none could touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. § 3. Pindar, though...

...of human life with all its joys and sorrows, its hopes and disappointments. He wrote hymns, preans, elegies, hyporchemes, or songs for dancing, dithyrambs,...inclined to the pathetic, and none could touch with truer eflect the chords of human sympathy. $ 3. Pindar, though the contemporary of Simonides, was considerably...

...mouth-piece of human life with all its joys and sorrows, its hopes and disappointments. He wrote hyrnns, paeans, elegies, hyporchemes, or songs for dancing,...Simonides, was considerably his junior. He was born cither at, or in the neighbourhood of, Thebes in Ikeotia, about the year 522 BC His family ranked among...

...poet, then the mouthpiece of human life with all its joys and sorrows, its hopes and disappointment.-). He wrote hymns, paeans, elegies, hyporchemes, or songs...touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. § 8. Pindar, though the contemporary of Simonides, was considerably his junior. He was born either...

...elegies, dancing-songs, dithyrambs, epinician odes, and dirges, in which last he chiefly excelled. For his genius was inclined to the pathetic, and none...touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. But few fragments of this most prolific poet have descended to us. PINDAR (nc about 522-442). — Pindar's...

...fragments of his compositions have descended to us. He wrote hymns, triumphal odes, and elegies, and in the last species of composition he particularly excelled. His genius was inclined to the pathetic ; none could touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. The Lamentation of Danae, the most...

...fragments of his compositions have descended to us. He wrote hymns, triumphal odes, and elegies, and in the last species of composition he particularly excelled. His genius was inclined to the pathetic ; none could touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. The Lamentation of Danae, the most...

...repaired to Syracuse, at the invitation of Hiero, and there spent the remaining ten years of his life. Simonides was one of the most prolific poets that...touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. For this it is only necessary to instance his poem on Danae.* Pindar, though he wrote in the same period...

...elegies, dancing -songs, dithyrambs, epinician odes, and dirges, in which last he chiefly excelled. For his genius was inclined to the pathetic, and none...touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy. But few fragments of this most prolific 'poet have descended to us. PINDAR (B. c. about 522-442). —...