Roman Literature in Relation to Roman ArtMacmillan and Company, 1888 - 315 sider |
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Side 34
... means of arriving at ideal beauty , but prohibiting on pain of punishment its use for producing an exact representation of defects in shape.1 ἀπειλεῖ ὁ νόμος Θήβῃσι τοῖς εἰς τὸ χεῖρον πλάσασι ζημίαν τὸ τίμημα δρᾶν.— Elian . Var . Hist ...
... means of arriving at ideal beauty , but prohibiting on pain of punishment its use for producing an exact representation of defects in shape.1 ἀπειλεῖ ὁ νόμος Θήβῃσι τοῖς εἰς τὸ χεῖρον πλάσασι ζημίαν τὸ τίμημα δρᾶν.— Elian . Var . Hist ...
Side 62
... means of illustrating their character and moral qualities . So Domitian is called ' a bald Nero ' by him , as he is also by Ausonius . Their meaning is to call Domitian a Nero in every vice , excepting only that he has one feature which ...
... means of illustrating their character and moral qualities . So Domitian is called ' a bald Nero ' by him , as he is also by Ausonius . Their meaning is to call Domitian a Nero in every vice , excepting only that he has one feature which ...
Side 86
... this he has no other means than by making the distant 1 What are those countries they are carrying in the triumph , what mountains , and what seas ? figures of less dimensions , and relieving them in a 86 ROMAN LITERATURE AND ART .
... this he has no other means than by making the distant 1 What are those countries they are carrying in the triumph , what mountains , and what seas ? figures of less dimensions , and relieving them in a 86 ROMAN LITERATURE AND ART .
Side 137
... means of learning , and we rise from the perusal of Statius's poetry with a confused feeling of his cleverness in locking up so many thoughts in an epigrammatic host . From this point of view Conington says of Statius : 2 " Mr. Merivale ...
... means of learning , and we rise from the perusal of Statius's poetry with a confused feeling of his cleverness in locking up so many thoughts in an epigrammatic host . From this point of view Conington says of Statius : 2 " Mr. Merivale ...
Side 139
... means err , because they like to have their feelings sometimes harrowed and tossed about , which is done by making literature exciting and strange , sometimes by being smoothed and softened , which latter is the common error both in ...
... means err , because they like to have their feelings sometimes harrowed and tossed about , which is done by making literature exciting and strange , sometimes by being smoothed and softened , which latter is the common error both in ...
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Side 177 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Side 176 - From her unhasty beast she did alight ; And on the grass her dainty limbs did lay In secret shadow, far from all men's sight From her fair head her fillet she undight, And laid her stole aside ; her...
Side 7 - Sed ego sic statuo, nihil esse in ullo genere tarn pulchrum, quo non pulchrius id sit unde illud ut ex ore aliquo quasi imago exprimatur; quod neque oculis neque auribus neque ullo sensu percipi potest, cogitatione tantum et mente complectimur.
Side 81 - Euandri profugae concubuere boves. fictilibus crevere deis haec aurea templa, nec fuit opprobrio facta sine arte casa ; Tarpeiusque pater nuda de rupe tonabat, et Tiberis nostris advena bubus erat. qua gradibus domus ista Remi se sustulit, olim unus erat fratrum maxima regna focus.
Side 176 - And layd her stole aside : her angels face, As the great eye of Heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place ; Did never mortal! eye behold such heavenly grace.
Side 91 - En Priamus ! Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi ; sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. Solve metus ; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.
Side 23 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Side 146 - Upon the whole, it seems to me, that the object and intention of all the Arts is to supply the natural imperfection of things, and often to gratify the mind by realising and embodying what never existed but in the imagination.
Side 27 - Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, 'Augustus Caesar, Divi genus, aurea condet 'Saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva