 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - Počet stránok 1058
...manners, that men men thought it might be copied, fo as to gain them applaufe. Even in Greece itfelf, tragedy had attained its maturity many years before comedy, as may be feen by comparing the age of Sophocles and Euripides with that of Philemon and Menander. For onrfelves,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - Počet stránok 1082
...respectable bg more refined and polished manners, th« men thought it might be copied, so as to pin them applause. Even in Greece itself, tragedy had...and Euripides with that of Philemon and Menander. For ourselves, we shall find most of our first poets prone to a turgid bombast, ind most of our first... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - Počet stránok 794
...merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life was rendered respectable by For ourselves, we shall find most of our first poets prone to a turgid bombast, and most of our first... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1835 - Počet stránok 340
...merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life was rendered respectable by more refined and polished manners, that men thought...attained its maturity many years before comedy, as may he seen by comparing the age of Sophocles and Euripides, with that of Philemon and Menander." comedy,... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1839 - Počet stránok 342
...merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life was rendered respectable by more refined and polished manners, that men thought...and Euripides, with that of Philemon and Menander." comedy, which is noted for the extreme freedom and severity of its satire, the principal dramatists... | |
 | James Harris - 1841 - Počet stránok 652
...merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life was rendered respectable by more refined and polished manners, that men thought...tragedy had attained its maturity many years before comedy,h as may be seen by comparing the age of Sophocles and Euripides with that of Philemon and Menander.... | |
 | James Harris - 1841 - Počet stránok 618
...merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life was rendered respectable by more refined and polished manners, that men thought...tragedy had attained its maturity many years before comedy,h as may be seen by comparing the age of Sophocles and Euripides with that of Philemon and Menander.... | |
 | James Harris - 1841 - Počet stránok 616
...them applause. Even in Greece itself, tragedy had attained its maturity many years before comedy,11 as may be seen by comparing the age of Sophocles and Euripides with that of Philemon and Menander. For ourselves, we shall find most of our first poets prone to a turgid bombast, and most of our first... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1850 - Počet stránok 556
...merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life was rendered respectable by more refined and polished manners, that men thought...tragedy had attained its maturity many years before comedv,as may be seen by comparing the age of Sophocles and Euripides, with that of Philemon and Menander."... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1854 - Počet stránok 544
...merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life was rendered respectable by more refined and polished manners, that men thought...Cratinus, Aristophanes, and other old writers of comedy, used unbounded license in exposing the knave,: the tliief,, the adulterer, the assassin, or any infamous... | |
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Men seemed to have thought, that the higher they soared, the more important they should appear ; and that the common life which they then lived, was a thing too contemptible to merit imitation. Hence it followed, that it was not till this common life... 