Theognis restitutus, the personal history of the poet deduced from his existing fragments [by J.H. Frere.]. |
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addressed Alcathous alluded already appears Aristocracy assigned Athenians Athens banishment battle battle of Marathon belong birth celebrated character Choregus circumstances Cleisthenes composed considered Corinth Corinthian Cypselus defect Doric drink easy Elorus Emigrant endeavouring enemies entertained escape Eubæa evidently evil exile expressed faction fair faithful favor feeling following fragment following lines fortune Frag Fragt Gelo Gods Greece happy heart Heaven Herodotus Hipparchus Hippias honor hopes inferred instance Jove kind Kurnus language mark means Megara mentioned mind native never offence Olympiad Olympic Olympic Games Onomacritus original partizan party passage Periander period person phrase Pindar poem poet Poet's poetical poetry poverty preceding fragment present probably Professor Muller race reader reign respect revolution ruin seems sense shew Sicily Simonides singular Sisyphus slave Spartans spirit Suidas suppose supposition talents Thebans Thebes Theognis thing tion tone town verses wealth wholly wicked wine
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Page 109 - Fenc'd and adorn'd of old this town of ours ! Such favour in thy sight Alcathous won, Of Pelops old the fair and manly son. Now, therefore, in thy clemency divine, Protect these very walls, our own and thine ! Guide and assist us, turn aside the boast Of the destroying haughty Persian host ! So shall thy people each returning spring Slay fatted hecatombs, and gladly bring Fair gifts, with chaunted hymns and lively song, Dances and feasts, and happy shouts among : Before thy altar, glorifying thee,...
Page 84 - May Jove assist me to discharge the debt Of kindness to my friends ; and grant me yet A further boon — revenge upon my foes ! With these accomplished, I could gladly close My term of life — a fair requital made ; My friends rewarded, and my wrongs repaid. Gratitude and revenge, before I die, Might make me deem'd almost a Deity ! Yet hear...
Page 36 - Their arbitrary chief, have mourn'd for me. XXV. I envy not these sumptuous obsequies, The stately car, the purple canopies ; Much better pleas'd am I, remaining here, With cheaper equipage and better cheer. A couch of thorns, or an embroider'd bed, Are matters of indifference to the dead.
Page 21 - I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Page 81 - Or in a steadfast tone, bolder and higher, To temper with a touch, the manly lyre. » # « # * The slavish visage never is erect ; But looks oblique, and language indirect Betray their origin — no lovely rose Or hyacinth, from the rude bramble grows ; Nor from a slavish and degraded breed, Can gentle words, or courteous acts proceed.
Page 70 - ... fortune ! — Such, if such there are, Could you survey the world, and search it round, And bring together all that could be found ; The largest company you could enroll, A single vessel could embark the whole ! — So few there are ! the noble manly minds Faithful and firm, the men that honour binils ; Impregnable to danger and to pain And low seduction in the shape of gain.
Page 27 - Esculapius, if their art Could remedy a perverse and wicked heart, Might earn enormous wages! But in fact, The mind is not compounded and compact Of precept and example; human Art In human Nature has no share or part Hatred of Vice, the fear of Shame and Sin...
Page 12 - I was forty-seven years old when I began to think of death ; and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake in the morning, and end when I am going to sleep.
Page 19 - Guided and aided by their holy will, -> Jove and Apollo, may they guard me still, . My course of youth in safety to fulfil ; Free from all evil, happy with my wealth, In joyous easy years of peace and health. His amusements and accomplishments at this time, his fondness for the pipe, which he delighted to accompany (for it was not allowable for a gentleman to play upon so ungainly an instrument) and the pleasure which he took in playing on that graver and more decorous instrument the lyre, are expressed...
Page 74 - Corinth at this time, and remarks the evident bias of that government in favour of the democratic party at Athens, will feel no hesitation in concluding that they must have been equally disposed to protect a party of similar principles in their own immediate neighbourhood; and that the armed force above mentioned must have been dispatched from Corinth. This conclusion will be confirmed by the next fragment Of the other two powerful neighbouring states, Thebes was of opposite politics, hostile in...