The Greek Genius and Its Influence: Select Essays and ExtractsLane Cooper Yale University Press, 1917 - 306 strán (strany) |
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... dramatic performances formed the principal attraction . Each day soon after sunrise the great majority of the citizens made their way to the southern slopes of the Acropolis , where the theatre of Dionysus was situated . The tiers of ...
... dramatic performances formed the principal attraction . Each day soon after sunrise the great majority of the citizens made their way to the southern slopes of the Acropolis , where the theatre of Dionysus was situated . The tiers of ...
Strana 79
... drama of such an exceptional character was exhibited . At the Lenaea , which was held in the winter , when traveling ... dramatic exhibitions . Altogether the visitors formed a considerable portion of the audience at the City ...
... drama of such an exceptional character was exhibited . At the Lenaea , which was held in the winter , when traveling ... dramatic exhibitions . Altogether the visitors formed a considerable portion of the audience at the City ...
Strana 80
... dramas , which were nearly as coarse as the comedies . It is useless therefore to endeavor to separate tragedy from ... dramatic performances , whether tragic or comic , was drawn from every class of the population . Men , women ...
... dramas , which were nearly as coarse as the comedies . It is useless therefore to endeavor to separate tragedy from ... dramatic performances , whether tragic or comic , was drawn from every class of the population . Men , women ...
Strana 82
... drama in which the misfortunes of the Ionians were forcibly por- trayed . So far from admiring the skill of the poet , they fined him a thousand drachmas for reminding them of the miseries of their kinsfolk , and passed a law forbidding ...
... drama in which the misfortunes of the Ionians were forcibly por- trayed . So far from admiring the skill of the poet , they fined him a thousand drachmas for reminding them of the miseries of their kinsfolk , and passed a law forbidding ...
Strana 83
... drama is also the period of the political supremacy of Athens . As far as intelligence and discrimination are ... dramatic poets , and brought them down to their own level . His evidence is perhaps rather prejudiced . But Aristotle ...
... drama is also the period of the political supremacy of Athens . As far as intelligence and discrimination are ... dramatic poets , and brought them down to their own level . His evidence is perhaps rather prejudiced . But Aristotle ...
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Strana 203 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Strana 20 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Strana 20 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower ; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Strana 48 - In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous Orators repair, Those ancient whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes
Strana 21 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Strana 26 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Strana 149 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Strana 191 - I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Strana 204 - Jove, Hid Amalthea, and her florid son, Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye ; Nor, where Abassin kings their issue guard, Mount Amara (though this by some supposed True Paradise) under the Ethiop line By Nilus...
Strana 24 - But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity...