The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests: From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East : Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Том 2

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M'Dermut & Arden, 1814
 

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Страница 324 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Страница 123 - But if that minister promoted the love of action, he found it necessary at least to comply with, if not to excite, the extreme passion for pleasure which then began to distinguish his countrymen. The people of Athens, successful in every enterprise against their foreign as well as domestic enemies, seemed entitled to reap the fruits of their dangers and victories. For the space of at least twelve years preceding the war of Peloponnesus, their city afforded a perpetual scene of triumph and festivity....
Страница 127 - Phidias, ferved as handmaids to religion and virtue, degenerated under inferior artifts into mean hirelings of vice and...
Страница 389 - ... design of leaving Sicily, until the republick should recal them by positive authority, and they should be •warranted to proceed in this important measure. Those, he said, who were now so earnest for an ignominious flight, and exclaimed so bitterly against the calamities under which they laboured, would, after their return, be the foremost to accuse the weakness or the treachery of their commanders. For his part, he would rather choose to die gloriously by the hand of the enemy, than perish...
Страница 146 - Corpus et ipsum animum spe finis dura ferentem, Cum sociis operum, pueris et conjuge fida, Tellurem porco, Silvanum lacte piabant, Floribus et vino Genium memorem brevis aevi. Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem 145 Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit...
Страница 178 - XIV' and has a thousand ways of ennobling its object ; but the expression of this shriek would have totally degraded the statue. It is softened, therefore, into a patient sigh, with eyes turned to heaven in search of relief. The intolerable agony of suffering nature is represented in the lower part, and particularly in the extremities, of the body ; but the manly breast struggles against calamity. The contention is still more plainly perceived in his furrowed forehead ; and his languishing paternal...
Страница 107 - Athens during her more barbarous state, and in perfect consonance with the character of a people, who could elevate a Draco, and bow to his mandates registered in blood. But the wisdom of Solon corrected the evil. Athens felt the benefit of the reform, and the...
Страница 125 - ... recommended by the laws of Solon, the Athenians, soon after the eightieth Olympiad, availed themselves of their extensive commerce to import the delicacies of distant countries, which were prepared with all the refinements of cookery. The wines of Cyprus were cooled with snow in summer ; in winter, the most delightful flowers adorned the tables and persons of the wealthy Athenians. Nor was it sufficient to be crowned with roses, unless they were likewise anointed with the most precious perfumes....
Страница 322 - ... called to an account with a degree of hostile warmth not usual with the Lacedaemonians. They had determined to destroy his house) and to condemn him in a fine of several thousand pounds. But considering his former diligence and service, and the general deportment of his conduct, he was again received into favour. His known talents for war recommended him to the command of the army, and he promised his countrymen, that his future services should speedily wipe off the late aspersion from his character....
Страница 174 - ... nothing farther concerning that celebrated people, but what appeared from the Apollo Belvidere, the groupes of the Laocoon and Niobé, and other ftatues, gems, or medals, now fcattered...

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