The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern TimesG. Bell and sons, 1875 - 695 էջ |
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... express any record , whether in prose or verse , which was engraved on statues of gods and men , and on the wayside tombs of the dead . It ... expressed one definite idea . Such was the epigram at the period at which it riv INTRODUCTION .
... express any record , whether in prose or verse , which was engraved on statues of gods and men , and on the wayside tombs of the dead . It ... expressed one definite idea . Such was the epigram at the period at which it riv INTRODUCTION .
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... expression ; now and then a pleasing hyperbole , or an ingenious anti- thesis , may be found in them , which is the most they can ever pretend to : we are not to seek for point in them ; good sense , and pure language , somewhat raised ...
... expression ; now and then a pleasing hyperbole , or an ingenious anti- thesis , may be found in them , which is the most they can ever pretend to : we are not to seek for point in them ; good sense , and pure language , somewhat raised ...
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... expressed with singular terseness . The effect of writing whole volumes of epigrams is seen in the wit often degenerating into forced conceits , and in exhaustion of thought causing the reproduction of the same ideas in different ...
... expressed with singular terseness . The effect of writing whole volumes of epigrams is seen in the wit often degenerating into forced conceits , and in exhaustion of thought causing the reproduction of the same ideas in different ...
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... expression of the events , the manners , the character of each separate period of history . " True as this is of poets in general , especially is it true of Epigram- matists . Authors of this class have , from the earliest times , not ...
... expression of the events , the manners , the character of each separate period of history . " True as this is of poets in general , especially is it true of Epigram- matists . Authors of this class have , from the earliest times , not ...
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... made the scenes you writ Their happy point of fine expression hit . Thus still you live , you make your Athens shine , And raise its glory to the skies in thine . PLATO . The celebrated philosopher . He was born in SIMMIAS . 15.
... made the scenes you writ Their happy point of fine expression hit . Thus still you live , you make your Athens shine , And raise its glory to the skies in thine . PLATO . The celebrated philosopher . He was born in SIMMIAS . 15.
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1870 |
The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1876 |
The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1870 |
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Էջ 561 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Էջ 237 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Էջ 214 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? " Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic k summer's heat?
Էջ 458 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember ? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on : And yet, within a month,— Let me not think on't, — Frailty, thy name is woman ! — A little month ; or ere those shoes were old, With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears : — why she, even she, — O heaven ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Էջ 166 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Էջ 155 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Էջ 397 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Էջ 432 - O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...
Էջ 267 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Էջ 34 - Ay me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?