| 1844 - 714 páginas
...for the first time listened to the impassioned accents of a poet imbued with the spirit which "The lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral wisdom, with delight received, In brief sententious precepts, while they teach Of fate and chance and... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 594 páginas
...from its merits as a noble original. The author shows himself, not simply familiar with " what the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received, In brief, sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate and chance, and change... | |
| 1837 - 638 páginas
...only the maxims," he proceeds, " but the grounds of a pure morality, the mere fragments of which ' The lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts ;' and that the sublime truths of the divine unity... | |
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 páginas
...Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem i'ha-bus challeng'd for his own. Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change... | |
| John Styles - 1838 - 224 páginas
...country have decency and purity, and — to the disgrace of Christian countries let it be added — have morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent...Yet in paying a just and warm tribute to the moral excellences of these sublime dramatists, is not an answer provided to that long agitated question,... | |
| James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 páginas
...Melesigenea, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Pluebus challenged for his own : Thence what the lolly, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate and chance, and change... | |
| 1849 - 468 páginas
...poverty, and slander, recalled and revelled in its glowing recollections — " Of what the ancient grave tragedians taught, In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief, sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change... | |
| Hannah More - 1840 - 844 páginas
...country has decency and purity, and, to the disgrace of Christian countries, let it be added, have morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent...taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral piudence." Yet, in paying a just and warm tribute to the moral excellences of these sublime dramatists,... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 páginas
...no country has decency and purity, and to the disgrace of Christian countries, let it be added, have morality and even piety been so generally prevalent...what ' her lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus of Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence.' " Haying the decision of such a judge, of one whose good... | |
| 1840 - 534 páginas
...no country has decency and purity, and to the disgrace of Christian countries, let it be added, have morality and even piety been so generally prevalent...what ' her lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus of Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence.' " Having the decision of such a judge, of one whose good... | |
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