| John Penn - 1801 - 348 pagina’s
...obedient, And most humble Servant, JOHN PENN. Spring Gardens, April 6, 1796. ' What the lofty giare tragedians taught. In CHORUS or IAMBIC ; teachers...with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pagina’s
...sung, Blind Melesigines thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Pheebus challeng'd for his own. 260 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 in human life... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...Melesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phoebus challeng'd fur his own : Thence what the lolly 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 in human life.... | |
| John Styles - 1815 - 254 pagina’s
...morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent in any Theatrical compositions as in what — " Her lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence." Yet in paying a just and warm tribute to the moral excellencies of these sublime Dramatists is not... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pagina’s
...intimately acquainted. He had indeed attentively examined, and no one knew better how to explain What the lofty grave Tragedians taught In chorus or iambic,...with delight received In brief sententious precepts. MILTON'S P. Rt lib. IV. 1. 264. Nor had he neglected the cultivation of his own language, in which... | |
| 1831 - 1008 pagina’s
...argument." Now we remember and murmur to ourselves — from the Paradise Regained — " Thence what 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,... | |
| Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - 466 pagina’s
...optatam cursu contingere metam, Multa tulit fecitque puer. (Hor.) knew better how to explain, what they taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral...with delight received In brief sententious precepts. (Milton's PR IV. 264J Nor had he neglected the cultivation of his own language, in which he always... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagina’s
...sung, Blind MeJesigenes, thence Homer call'd, Waoie poem FhoAus challeng'd for his own : Tkeaee what dwelling here on Earth. God, to remove his ways from human sense, Plac' man! prudence, with delight receiv'd ID brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance,... | |
| 1832 - 614 pagina’s
...inculcating on both sexes examples of real aud universal wisdom. Hear the severe Milton — " Thence what the lofty, grave Tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic,...delight received, In brief, sententious precepts, while they treat Of Fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pagina’s
...sung, Blind MelesigSnes, thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Phoebus 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 Ja brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life,... | |
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