History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates

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Pagina 33 - came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of
Pagina 328 - him, not as something individual, but only as another form of something else. " Fire (he says) lives the death of the earth ; air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of air; and the earth that of water ;'§ by which he meant that individual things were only different forms of a universal substance, which mutually destroy each other. In
Pagina 315 - was the Chthonian deity, Dionysus Zagreus, closely connected with Demeter and Cora, who was the personified expression not only of the most rapturous pleasure, but also of a deep sorrow for the miseries of human life. The Orphic legends and poems related in great part to this Dionysus, who
Pagina 315 - that is to say, associations of persons, who, under the guidance of the ancient mystical poet Orpheus, dedicated themselves to the worship of Bacchus, in which they hoped to find satisfaction for an ardent longing after the soothing and elevating influences of religion. The Dionysus to whose worship these Orphic and Bacchic rites were
Pagina 338 - him, not as something individual, but only as another form of something else. " Fire (he says) lives the death of the earth ; air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of air;
Pagina 223 - pure, sweetly smiling Sappho ;" and confesses to her in another that he wishes to express more, but shame prevents him. Sappho understands his meaning, and answers with maiden indignation, " If thy wishes were fair and noble, and thy tongue designed not to utter what is base, shame would not cloud thy eyes, but thou wouldst freely speak thy just desires
Pagina 341 - other. This spirit gave to all those material atoms, which in the beginning of the world lay in disorder, the impulse by which they took the forms of individual things and beings. Anaxagoras considered this impulse as having been given by the
Pagina 319 - before the doors of the rich, and promise to release them from their own sins, and those of their forefathers, by sacrifices and expiatory songs; and they produced at this ceremony a heap of books of Orpheus and
Pagina 279 - Its character was always, like that of the worship to which it belonged, impassioned and enthusiastic; the extremes of feeling, rapturous pleasure, and wild lamentation, were both expressed in it. Concerning the mode of its representation we are but imperfectly informed. Archilochus says, that " he is able, when his mind is inflamed with wine, to

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