Biographia Classica: The Lives and Characters of All the Classic Authors, the Grecian and Roman Poets, Historians, Orators, and Biographers, Volume 1D. Browne, 1750 - Biography |
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... Alcaus . The last of these is said to have been her Suitor , and a Rebuke which she gave him , is still extant in Aristotle . He in- forms us , that Alceus one Day accofting Sap- pho , and telling her he had fomething to say to her ...
... Alcaus . The last of these is said to have been her Suitor , and a Rebuke which she gave him , is still extant in Aristotle . He in- forms us , that Alceus one Day accofting Sap- pho , and telling her he had fomething to say to her ...
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... Alcaus . He was a Native of Mitylene in the Island of Lesbos , and one of the greatest Lyric Poets of Antiquity . Some say he was the first Inventor of the Barbiton , though others ascribe the Honour to Terpander . Horace compliments ...
... Alcaus . He was a Native of Mitylene in the Island of Lesbos , and one of the greatest Lyric Poets of Antiquity . Some say he was the first Inventor of the Barbiton , though others ascribe the Honour to Terpander . Horace compliments ...
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... Alceus is one of those Declarations of Love , which require the critical Minute , and that Sappho apprehended perfectly what it meant . Her Answer , says he , is wife , but perhaps too ferious upon this Suppofition . one of the Alcaus ...
... Alceus is one of those Declarations of Love , which require the critical Minute , and that Sappho apprehended perfectly what it meant . Her Answer , says he , is wife , but perhaps too ferious upon this Suppofition . one of the Alcaus ...
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... Alcaus , and his Adherents , whom they had ba- nished . Others say , that having abused Pitta- cus's Clemency , and continuing to cabal and in- veigh against him , he was no longer used with favour ; which Ovid thus expresses , Utque ...
... Alcaus , and his Adherents , whom they had ba- nished . Others say , that having abused Pitta- cus's Clemency , and continuing to cabal and in- veigh against him , he was no longer used with favour ; which Ovid thus expresses , Utque ...
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... Alcaus , and he publickly confefsed it . He fell into the Greek Vice , the Love of Boys ; the Name of his Favourite was Lycus , whose black Eyes , as Horace says , and black Hair had inflamed him . Qui ferox bello , & c . He fierce in ...
... Alcaus , and he publickly confefsed it . He fell into the Greek Vice , the Love of Boys ; the Name of his Favourite was Lycus , whose black Eyes , as Horace says , and black Hair had inflamed him . Qui ferox bello , & c . He fierce in ...
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Page 175 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each; it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Page 14 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Page 47 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
Page 175 - No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty, and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we...
Page 176 - ... all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer...
Page 46 - The Odes of Anacreon," says Rapin, " are flowers, beauties, and perpetual graces : it is familiar to him to write what is natural; he has an air so delicate, easy, and graceful, that, among all the ancients, there is nothing comparable to the method he took, nor to that kind of writing he followed. He flows soft and easy, every whew diffusing the joy and indolence of his mind through all his compositions, and tuning his harp to the pleasant and happy temper of his soul.
Page 245 - Nero himfelf was not only fond of it to the higheft degree, but, as moft bad poets are, 'was vain and conceited of his performances in that kind. He valued himfelf more upon his...
Page 276 - I can bear; he fully satisfies my expectation; he treats his subject home; his spleen is raised, and he raises mine. I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him, and when he is at the end of his way, I willingly stop with him. If he went another stage, it would be too far; it would make a journey of a progress, and turn delight into fatigue.
Page 187 - Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid.
Page 1 - Mentes returning to Ithaca, found Homer cured. They embarked together, and after much time fpent in vifiting the Coafts...