 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 oldal
...broadest merriment, and the sharpest satire. An imagination of 20 endless variety and strength, enlivens those lyrical passages which gem his works, and are...his conceptions, the precision of his outlines, the con25 sistency with which his personages are throughout maintained, cannot fail to impress the reader,... | |
 | Bernard Rölker - 1854 - 338 oldal
...from the midst of the broadest merriment and the sharpest satire. An imagination of endless variety informs those lyrical passages which gem his works,...characters his plays exhibit consummate skill The comedy of the Clouds is, f,:r many reasons, one of the most interesting remains of the theatrical literature... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1858 - 264 oldal
...tribunals, — the assemblies in the Pnyx, the Senate, and the Heliastic courts ! No intelligent reader can doubt that Aristophanes was a man of the most profound...fail to impress the reader with the perfection of his judgment, and the masterly management of the resources of his art. His manifold and startling wit has... | |
 | Horace - 1869 - 642 oldal
...from the midst of the broadest merriment and the sharpest satire. An imagination of endless variety informs those lyrical passages which gem his works,...characters his plays exhibit consummate skill The copiedy of the Clouds is, fur many reasons, one of the most interesting remains of th theatrical literature... | |
 | William Watson Goodwin - 1870 - 320 oldal
...from the midst of the broadest merriment and the sharpest satire. An imagination of endless variety informs those lyrical passages which gem his works,...characters his plays exhibit consummate skill The comedy of the Clouds is, for many reasons, one of the most interesting remains of the theatrical literature... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1872 - 276 oldal
...imagination ofendiese variety informs those lyrical passages which gem hU works, and are among the niost precious brilliants of the Greek language. In. the...characters his plays exhibit consummate skill The comedy of the Clouds is, f..r many reasons, one of the most interesting remains of the theatrical literature... | |
 | Robert F. Pennell - 1874 - 160 oldal
...«atire. An imagination of endless variety informs those lyrical passages which gem his works, aud are among the most precious brilliants of the Greek...characters his plays exhibit consummate skill The comedy of the Clouds is, fur many reasons, one of the most interesting remains of the theatrical literature... | |
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... genius. It is impossible to study his works attentively, without feeling that his was one of the master minds of the Attic drama. The brightest flashes of a poetical spirit are constantly breaking out from the midst of the broadest merriment and the... 