From Homer to Theocritus: A Manual of Greek Literature, المجلد 56C. Scribner's Sons, 1901 - 476 من الصفحات Bibliographical appendix: p. 457-464. |
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الصفحة 164 - TO A LOVED ONE Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee. And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. 'Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast; For while I gazed, in transport
الصفحة 325 - As to the speeches which were made either before or during the war, it was hard for me, and for others who reported them to me, to recollect the exact words. I have therefore put into the mouth of each speaker the sentiments proper to the occasion, expressed as I thought he would be
الصفحة 62 - his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men and dreadful even to gods. Such war the immortals wage ; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
الصفحة 314 - Medicine is practiced among them on a plan of separation; each physician treats a single disorder, and no more: thus the country swarms with medical practitioners, some undertaking to cure diseases of the eye, others of the head, others again of the teeth, others of the intestines, and some those which are not
الصفحة 40 - Dare they not enter the fight, or stand in the council of heroes, All for fear of the shame and the taunts my crime has awakened ? " So said she—they long since in Earth's soft arms were reposing, There, in their own dear land, their Fatherland, Lacedimon.
الصفحة 404 - follows : Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. By ' language embellished* I mean language into which rhythm,
الصفحة 406 - tragedy; character holds the second place. A similar fact is seen in painting. The most beautiful colours, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as the chalk outline of a portrait. Thus tragedy is the imitation of an action, and of the agents mainly with a view to the action.
الصفحة 164 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast; For while I gazed, in transport lost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost: My bosom glowed ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy
الصفحة 308 - These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory; and withal to put on record what were their grounds of feud. His
الصفحة 146 - in the dust, And venerable bosom bleeding bare. But youth's fair form, though fallen, is ever fair, And beautiful in death the boy appears, The hero boy, that dies in blooming years. In man's regret he lives, and woman's tears, More sacred than in life, and lovelier far, For having perished in the front of war.